These are the tastiest ready-to-eat avocado products from the supermarket

Avocado on toast—delicious! Provided you manage to get your hands on a perfectly ripe avocado (which you can cut into cubes in no time with this trick). But if you can’t find a ripe avocado—which remains a struggle—ready-to-eat avocado products from the supermarket offer the perfect solution. We don’t like many of them. Except those from Sabor Verde, which are also grown responsibly.

Although avocados are loved worldwide for their taste and health benefits, there is also a downside to the green hero: the enormous waste of water involved in growing them. Avocados need a lot of water as they grow—around 140 to 320 liters per fruit. Paradoxically, most of the avocados that end up on our plates come from areas where water is scarcer than ever. From drought-prone regions in Chile and Peru to Spain: the avocado industry depletes soils and puts local ecosystems under pressure.

Sustainable avocados

So there’s good news from Dutch brand Sabor Verde: its products are made with avocados grown using 100% rainwater. This takes place in Mexican Michoacán, where it rains for ten months of the year. Instead of monocultures, Sabor Verde’s avocados grow there among a natural mix of fruit trees and coniferous forests on fertile volcanic soil. Thanks to this approach, irrigation is unnecessary and biodiversity is strengthened. The rich mineral composition of these soils provides a distinctive, intense flavor and texture.

No unnecessary stuff

Great news in terms of sustainability, then, but what I also consider a huge plus is that, unlike many other ready-to-eat avocado products, no unnecessary additives are used. All the products contain only natural ingredients. Because they are harvested when their fat content is at its highest, they contain plenty of avocado oil and fiber—and therefore plenty of flavor and texture too.

Here’s where to buy Sabor Verde’s avocado products

You can choose from various ready-to-eat (and therefore always ripe) avocado products in the supermarket: Smashed Perfect Avocado (98.99% avocado with lime, salt and pepper) and Chunky Guacamole in classic, tomato and spicy flavors. Each package contains the equivalent of two avocados, but without bruised spots—and therefore with 0% waste. You can find them at Boon, PLUS and Coop. And conveniently, you can also buy single-serve cups, so you don’t waste a single avocado.

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