A lunch fit for a king? That's half an avocado for Charles... and he definitely doesn't smash it like a millennial!

King Charles has started to devour luncheon for the archetypal clip – and The Mail connected Sunday tin uncover his repast of prime is the millennial's favourite, the avocado.

The 75-year-old monarch has spent a beingness skipping lunch, with a root saying helium regarded it arsenic a 'luxury' and that determination was not capable clip successful his engaged docket to let specified an indulgence.

Now, connected the orders of his wife, aides and doctors, helium has grudgingly started eating successful the mediate of the time to support his spot up.

But the King, who is recovering from cancer, insists connected eating lone the healthiest – and trendiest – snack determination is. A root said: 'With immoderate reluctance, helium present has thing to devour astatine lunchtime – a snack, really. He present eats fractional an avocado to prolong him done the day. It's important, peculiarly if you person got an illness.'

Charles is simply a steadfast eater, insisting connected integrated produce. Eggs are a peculiar favourite. He told the BBC 3 years agone however helium abstains from nutrient and food connected 2 days of the week, and that helium besides avoids dairy connected 1 of those days.

Avocados are a alleged superfood, known for being dense successful calories and a steadfast mode to incorporated energy-fuelling 'good fat' into a diet. They are present virtually portion of the nation's civilization wars aft becoming hugely fashionable with that much-criticised generational cohort, the millennials – calved betwixt 1981 and 1996.

Nigella Lawson and London edifice The River Cafe are some wide blamed for the omnipresent snack of choice, avocado connected toast. But the mastermind down the improvement seems alternatively to person been Australian restaurateur, Bill Granger. He served his archetypal sheet of smashed avocado connected toast 3 decades agone successful a cafe successful Sydney – small knowing helium was sparking a worldwide revolution.

A emotion of avocado connected toast has someway go synonymous with millennials, and, by extension, the workshy. There was adjacent an improbable contention astir however millennials would beryllium overmuch amended placed to bargain the homes they felt they were being priced retired of by older 'boomers' if lone they would rein successful their prodigious outlays connected the snack astatine hipster cafes.

But Charles' summation of them into his fare includes nary of the carbohydrates that travel with toast. He prefers them connected their ain and they are eaten lone for utilitarian purposes.

Last week, the King's food-critic stepson Tom Parker Bowles gave an penetration into Charles' economical attack to meals. 'Everything is recycled,' helium said. 'If thing is near over, that volition beryllium made into thing other oregon look the adjacent day. Nothing's thrown out.' His latest book, Cooking And The Crown, details the past of nutrient successful the royal family. He revealed that successful colder months, his parent Queen Camilla has porridge each time and keeps her lunches airy – chickenhearted broth oregon smoked salmon – portion Charles eats dried effect and chromatic for meal and has preferred day beverage to lunch.

Mr Parker Bowles said: 'Tea has ever been a spectacle – and an important and important repast successful itself – for the royals. Everyone congregates for tea.

'And it's not conscionable cakes and biscuits and crumpets and sandwiches. You mightiness adjacent get poached eggs. If you are staying successful Scotland, it's rather dangerous, due to the fact that you person a cooked breakfast, you person lunch, you person beverage and you person dinner.'

'He eats them lone for utilitarian purposes'