Avocado remains from El Gigante illustrate how ancient farmers domesticated crops to adapt to changing environments. The ...

But Hass decided that it was what inside that counted—a decision that would change the course of avocado history. It turned out that the Hass had some other big advantages over the Fuerte.

Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

In 2019, the genome of the Hass avocado was finally mapped. What did we discover? We know now that 61% of the Hass is Mexican varieties, and 39% comes from Guatemalan avocados. That's a really ...

While today the Hass avocado is marketed as a California native, genetic testing has shown it’s actually a hybrid comprised of 61% Mexican varieties and about 39% Guatemalan ones.

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 ...

Hass is the most popular avocado worldwide, with about 95% of California's industry growing the variety, Arpaia said. Researchers also look for fruit that has a long shelf life so it can be ...

As most avocado eaters know, Hass reigns supreme at grocery stores across the nation. According to Avocados From Mexico, 95 percent of all avocados eaten in the U.S. are the Hass variety, which is ...

If you’re not already an avocado aficionado, how they look and how they feel can help you determine how ripe they are. “If ...