Organic Bacon Avocados

Organic Bacon Avocados are less known but delicious variety, oval shaped with smooth, thin shiny skin that is dark green in color with faint speckles throughout. Its flesh is pale yellow-green, and contrary to what the variety Bacon might suggest, it is less oily than Hass or Fuerte avocados, with a light taste and a creamy texture. The central pit in Bacon avocados is large, taking up a substantial space in the fruit.

Size of Organic Bacon Avocados.

Organic Bacon avocados are small to medium sized with weight ranging from 150 to 300 gr a piece.

How to store, ripen and enjoy your Organic Bacon Avocados

In Tropicultura we collect the avocados the same day we send them to you.  Depending on the temperature and the conditions where they are stored, It might take them from 5 to 10 days to fully ripen, so that you can enjoy them in your dishes, salads or healthy snacks.

As most other tropical fruits, you know your avocado is ripe when it yields to gentle pressure and its stem falls off easily. The skin of Bacon avocadoes stays green when ripe, unlike other varieties like Hass, that turn amost black when ready to eat.  Until it reaches full ripeness keep your Organic Bacon Avocadoes at room temperature between 18ºC to 22ºC. Make sure not to refrigerate before it is ripe, since lower temperatures might halt the ripening process, and even if taken out of the fridge afterwards the avocado might not be able to ripen properly.

Why you should never put your organic avocados in the fridge?

Have you ever asked yourself why freighted avocados from other continents do not taste as they should? For those avocados to endure the trip and get to the store shelf intact, they are stored at lower temperatures during a journey that might easily last more than two weeks. Therefore, those avocados can NEVER ripen properly and their taste will always be ordinary at most. You only might consider cooling a bit more your avocados once they are fully ripe. So consuming your avocadoes locally is not only better for the local economy and the planet, but also preserves the exquisitness of the fruit.

The season of Bacon avocados

Bacon avocado is one of the earliest to mature during avocado season. In the Tropical Coast of Granada we start collecting Bacon avocados in early October and it might extend till November or even December, depending on the weather and climatic conditions.

How we grow our Bacon avocados

All our tropical fruits are organic. We continuously work on enhancing biological diversity in our farm. Thus we do not use any synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.  Our health and your health are important to us, and above all the health of the soil, which is the root of it all. We strongly believe that there is no other way to cultivate our food. Our hope is that one day all agriculture will be sustainable. We have both Spanish and EU certificate as organic producers by CAAE

Additional information on avocado world.

Avocado source is an excellent page where detailed scientific information could be found on different topics related to avocados.