Avocados are popular but they are also slightly fraught, as it can be hard to know if the fruit is ripe. Take Alex ...

Another health benefit of avocado involves the heart. For starters, the fiber and fats in the fruit can help reduce high ...

For avocado trees, Di Lallo recommends a typical houseplant potting soil with some added perlite or pumice to promote aeration. When it comes to the perfect container, an unglazed terracotta pot will ...

According to Hernandez, guacamole should be stored like sliced or diced avocado: in a container with a lime juice-soaked ...

A shopper's photos of grocery store food waste led to a conversation about how retailers handle edible items. The images ...

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Avocados are fickle. Sometimes they seem to be ready for consumption but then hard as a rock when cut into. Other times avocados look like they’ll be rotten before you get them home. This ...

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A new artificial intelligence tool for smart phones will help consumers predict avocado ripeness. The tool should be available within a year, Oregon State University assistant professor Luyao Ma told ...

In Mexico, the avocado industry now faces a choice: Stop deforesting or lose access to the billion-dollar U.S. market. By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Photographs by César Rodríguez Emiliano Rodríguez Mega ...

Placing unripe avocados in a paper bag with fruit that gives off ethylene gas ripens them the fastest. Using a ripe banana edged out an apple by two days, but either method works. Heating avocados ...