I've personally never had a problem with your standard avocado, but apparently they can be a bit of health hazard.
'Avocado hand' - an injury that many sustain in the process of removing the stone of an avocado - is actually of more of a public health problem than you might otherwise have thought.
Earlier this year theBritish Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons called for avocados to carry safety labels due to the number of avocado-related injuries. 'People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them,' Simon Eccles told the Times in an interview with the paper. The injuries can be severe, too: some have suffered serious nerve and tendon injuries which require surgery and can leave you without full use of your hand. And it's not just ditzy millennials who are (almost literally) giving an arm and a leg to get their 'avo' fix; Hollywood legend Meryl Streep needed bandages in 2012 after she cut herself while trying to de-stone an avocado.
Thankfully the ever-dependable Marks & Spencer has come to the nation's rescue with their newly released stoneless avocados. Priced at £2 a packet, these 'cocktail avocados' are a much safer - if a lot smaller - alternative to the original recipe avocado.
Naturally as the intern I would be the guinea pig, and so I put the mutant avocados to the test.
As you would expect, the taste was nothing new. 'They're a bit anti-climatic, I think. They look really strange but they taste exactly like avocados.
One thing that was new - and in my case, unwanted - was the fact that you can eat them with the skins on. I imagine they're probably full of vitamins and minerals, but they slightly ruined the avocados for me. The skins were quite bitter (some more than others) and left the micro-avocados tasting a bit like raw courgettes.
Would I eat them again? Maybe. They're not offensive, if someone gave them to me, I would eat them. but I prefer normal avocados.
I'm glad that Marks & Spencer's more uncoordinated customers can still enjoy their avocado brunches without losing fingers, but I'll be sticking to the variety of avocado I'm used to. Given their delicious taste and impressive nutritional value, it's worth the risk.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.