Hass Avocado
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Description/Taste
Rancho Los Serranos is a certified organic farm in Valley Center, California. The warm and sunny California weather in this area creates the perfect growing conditions for citrus, avocados, herbs, and a variety of tropical fruits. Hass Avocados feature dark green, thick, and textured skin with a rich and nutty flesh with high oil content.
Current Facts
Avocados are botanically classified as Persea americana. Though there are hundreds of varieties of avocados, the Hass avocado has become the benchmark avocado for commercial production. Its long growing season, prolific fruit production and shipping tolerance are virtues that make the Hass the standard market avocado. It is the avocado that the general public identify as simply, an avocado. The name avocado comes from the fruits original Aztec name, aoacatl or ahuacatl. After being discovered and mispronounced by the Spanish, and then the English, the fruit made its way to Jamaica where it was called many things including avocado and alligator pear. In Florida the first avocados were introduced by the West Indies as "alligator pears" and was known as such on the eastern coast until The American Pomological Society and the U.S. Department of Agriculture adopted "avocado" as the commercial name for the fruit.
