The Strange History of Avocados

In this video, we look at the history behind a fruit of growing popularity: The avocado berry. Where did it come from, how did it develop, and how did it get to where it is today?

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Sources and further reading

Galindo-Tovar, María Elena, et al. “THE AVOCADO (PERSEA AMERICANA, LAURACEAE) CROP IN MESOAMERICA: 10,000 YEARS OF HISTORY.” i Harvard Papers in Botany vol. 12, no. 2, 2007, pp. 325–334. iJSTOR/i www.jstor.org/stable/41761865. Accessed 10 Sept. 2021.

Landon, Amanda J., "Domestication and Significance of Persea americana, the Avocado, in Mesoamerica" (2009). Nebraska Anthropologist. 47. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro/47

https://www.statista.com/statistics/591263/average-avocado-consumption-us-per-week/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/22/the-sudden-rise-of-the-avocado-americas-new-favorite-fruit/

https://web.archive.org/web/20071215142535/http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co04072001/CO_04072001_Recipes.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-should-have-gone-the-way-of-the-dodo-4976527/

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http://ucavo.ucr.edu/general/historyname.html

https://www.britannica.com/plant/avocado

https://www.etymonline.com/word/avocado

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/87a56e5c-6d41-4495-9e22-523efb6b4cb0

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