Move Over, Avocado — Meet the Next Super Fruit

When Israeli horticulturist Yossi Zaphrir first started experimenting with pitaya (aka dragon fruit) back in 1990, people often told him the flamboyant-looking fruit “tasted like wood.” Now, after decades of selective breeding, demand for his supersweet, purple-fleshed Bilu pitaya is so high that the 88-year-old has had to double production capabilities at his farm in […]

High blood pressure symptoms – eating avocado can help lower hypertension

High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects more than one in four adults in the UK, but many won’t realise they have it.  Heart disease, heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease are just a few of the potentially life-threatening conditions caused by high blood pressure.  But there are a number of things you can […]

High blood pressure symptoms – eating avocado can help lower hypertension

HIGH blood pressure rarely has visible symptoms, but if it’s left untreated it can cause increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. The best way to reduce high blood pressure is to make healthy lifestyle changes – adding avocado into your diet can help lower your reading.

Millennials Are Still Going to the Movies This Holiday Season, Enjoy Reclining Seats (and Avocado Toast)

Those dang millennials, let me tell you. As I’ve been told by numerous think-pieces, they’re killing off everything, checking their phones too much, and riding their roller blades all over the town. But here’s one old fashioned thing millennials are still interested in: going to the movies. At least during the current holiday season. A […]

Here’s how the avocado was marketed to confused Americans before it was popular

Tesco I have a confession to make: When I was a kid, I hated avocados. “Zaboca” as they are called in Trinidad (and maybe elsewhere in the Caribbean) were mushy and gross, in my young, uninformed opinion. They just didn’t taste like anything. Plus, I believed my parents ate some weird things in general. I […]

Iceland launches pre-sliced frozen avocado halves to combat fearful ‘avocado hand’

It’s been a stressful week for avocado lovers – first, there were rumblings of potential shortages, then came news of the ‘global epidemic’ that is ‘avocado hand’, which of course relates to instances where people are managing to injure themselves from either trying to remove the stone from the avocado, or slice one that is […]