Avocado

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Meet the Startup Founders Fighting Food Waste, One Avocado at a Time

Sheetal Bahirat just wanted to make some guacamole — a lot of guacamole. “I had peeled and pitted an entire case of avocados,” she explains, […]

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This New Philly-Area Whole Foods Has an Avocado Toast Bar

Whole Foods is so much more than a grocery store these days. It’s a Millennial paradise. Not only can they pick up all-organic everything, it’s […]

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This Yoga and Brunch Event Will Have a DIY Avocado Toast Bar

You know, as much as people complain about Millennials, it really doesn’t require much to keep us happy. Yes, I mean, we’d obviously all love to to […]

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Where to Find Avocado Toast Around Philadelphia

Needless to say, avocado toast has got to be our fave brunch-time dish (aside from mimosas, amiright?). It’s really a no brainer: avocados are on-trend, and the fruit’s (yep, […]

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7 Unexpected Smoothie Ingredients You Should Be Using (But Aren’t)

Smoothies are a quick, healthy, grab-and-go option for breakfast, but when you just stick to the expected — i.e. loads of fruit — you’re actually […]

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The Checkup: Wait — How Much Avocado Is TOO Much Avocado?

• Healthy fats have been getting lots of love lately — avocado toast is on just about every menu, and who doesn’t have, like, seven […]

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The Checkup: The Unsettling Link Between Over-the-Counter Painkillers and Heart Attack Risk

• Before you pop yet another ibuprofen for your never-ending headache, take note: A new study published in BMJ found that taking certain over-the-counter painkillers, […]

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The Checkup: A New Science-Backed Excuse to Eat More Avocado (Victory!) 

• This news might be the only thing to make me smile just as much as a perfectly ripe avocado: New research, published in the journal […]

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The Checkup: The Brilliant Way to Eat an Underripe Avocado

• Sure, you could be a patient human who does things like waits for their avocados to be perfectly ripe before digging in and never […]

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You’re Storing Halved Avocados All Wrong

As an avocado addict, I rarely have half of an avocado left over after preparing a meal. I am a one-full-avocado-per-piece-of-toast kind of gal. (You […]

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The Checkup: Are Avocado Brownies Good Or Gross? (You Know You’ve Wondered)

• Swapping avocado for butter in a brownie recipe cuts calories BIG time. But — because we know you’re wondering — does the end result taste […]

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The Checkup: Noooooo! There’s a Serious Downside to Your Avocado Obsession  

• I am a true avocado toast addict. So much so that I started an Instagram account SOLELY devoted to avocado toast. (Really!) But I […]

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The Checkup: The Magical Avocado Time Machine That Puts an End to Brown Guacamole 

• Today’s genius invention we wish we’d thought of ourselves: The Avocado Time Machine. As you probably know, the flesh of an avocado starts to brown […]

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The Checkup: How to Choose the Best Wine for Your Waistline

• If you, like Olivia Pope, love a good glass of wine after work but don’t want to overdo it in the calorie department, this […]

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Avopocalypse: Has It Come Upon Philly?

Today, we heard a rumor that Philly was slowly, but surely becoming devoid of avocados. A world with out avocados? Has the avopocalypse plaguing Australia come to […]