The time gives pride of place to infographics. This one, published in the June 15 edition of the Hamburg weekly, highlights this large berry with green flesh whose huge core is the only pip: the avocado. Rich in vitamins, this fruit is increasingly popular, so much so that its global production has multiplied by five between 1980 and 2020. Growth that represents an environmental threat insofar as cultivation areas have sometimes replaced the forest and where 1,000 liters of water are needed to produce a single kilo.
Of the 400 varieties of avocado listed, the major supermarkets mainly sell two: the Fuerte, pear-shaped, with green and smooth skin, and the Hass, oval, with brown and grainy skin. It is named after its first grower, a postman from California.