Nutritionally, Hass avocados are chock full of heart-healthy monounsaturated fats, containing about 4.6 grams of fat and 50 ...

“Although most people will have only tasted Hass or a couple of other types, there are a huge number of great avocado varieties in the species’ Mexican center of diversity, but few people will ...

“Avocado is a crop of enormous importance globally, but particularly to Mexico. Although most people will have only tasted Hass or a couple of other types, there are a huge number of great avocado ...

One of the latest, Don Gillogly, is just now making its way into a few nurseries. As happened about 80 years ago with the Hass, this new variety was not the result of bioengineering or even old ...

Parker pegs this avocado as the only potential large-scale competition to Hass. The softball-sized fruit tasted about as good as a Hass to me, but has big environmental advantages: water and land ...

With regard to modern affairs, the study reveals for the first time that the popular Hass avocado inherited about 61 percent of its DNA from Mexican varieties and about 39 percent from Guatemalan ones ...

UC researchers have bred a new avocado variety that's growing in Ventura County. Meet the Luna. Move over, Hass: There's a new avocado growing in the county and it's 'pretty darn good' ...