r/What • u/YamClassic53 • 4d ago
Wtf is happening to AVOCADOS š„
I went to cut an avocado for my avocado toast just like I normally do and it felt soft to the touch so I thought to myself that it was ripe. Little did I know.. as soon as I made the knife all the way around that I wouldnāt be taking off any of the flesh of the avocado, just the skin. Iām not quite sure how this happened because I applied enough pressure to be able to cut through to the pit but off came the skin and it just seems un edible. The color is beautiful it looks ripe but very deceiving, I kid you not my avocados as of recent have been smelling like chipotle sauce and Iāve had the worst texture. Some parts of the avocado are ripe while the rest is hard so I have to throw them away. What is going on? What should I do that? Has this happened to anyone else? Should I eat it?
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u/FishNipples666 4d ago
Premade guacamole
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u/AlchemyAlice 3d ago
Thank you for your outstanding contribution, Fish Nipples.
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u/International_Ant754 3d ago
Man I have to start paying attention to people's usernames because comments like this always catch me so off guard
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u/mjsillligitimateson 2d ago
Yep, was sticking up for one dude User name was .... drinkmybootymilkshake
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u/Total_Jelly_5080 2d ago
Funny regardless bit I think it would have been funnier if the username wasn't fishnipples š
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u/_triangle_ 3d ago
Do they have 666 of them amd how did they get them? š³
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u/AlchemyAlice 3d ago
Exactly how many nipples does one fish have?
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u/_triangle_ 3d ago
Average is around 0
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u/Feminist_Hugh_Hefner 3d ago
I'm not "beautiful mind" autistic, I'm the kind that will worry way too much about the possibility that just one fish with just one nipple will create a situation where, in order to keep this comment true, we will need a fish with a negative nipple, and then I'm wondering if that means a tuna with an inverted nipple counts, but then that might be inconsiderate to people with inverted nipples, and I like to think of myself as an ally to the inverted nipple community, but honestly I'm not really clear on how many of my friends and family are affected by inverted nipples because we culturally don't really allow for a lot of visibility...
anyhow, I'm also a little high, and that's might be a factor.
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u/Needashortername 3d ago
Well they do say that you canāt tuna fish no matter how much you can tune a piano, so maybe this nipple thing is the problem
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u/LONE_ARMADILLO 4d ago
It looks like it may have been frozen at some point. If you can't cut all the way to the center it may be frozen now. Is it cold? Was it near the back of the refrigerator?
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u/YamClassic53 3d ago
Well thatās the odd part I always leave my avocados out the ripen but it DOES seem frozen just not cold at all. I canāt cut thru to the pit. I just want to know whatās up with it and if itās safe to eat the damn things. Freaks me out LOOKS like FAKE food.
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u/Tx_Drewdad 3d ago
Outside got frozen and turned to goop. Inside is still not ripe.
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u/jimjamalama 3d ago
Op thanks for posting because Iāve wondered the same thing! They donāt taste good anymore for like a year for me and they used to be my favorite food
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u/MerlinOrange 3d ago
Happened to me two days ago. Exact same thing. Had it out for a few days to ripen. Felt soft enough to cut. Knife didn't make it through to the core. Very woodsy/fiberous after a few mm depth past the surface. Yet it visually on the inside looked ready. I tried eating a part of the softer edge to be sure I wasn't just tripping out. Didn't taste good enough to risk. Tossed it.
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u/No-Possible-4855 3d ago
Some avocados never ripe, especially if they are cheap and small. Just the way it is, thats why it is still hard.
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u/TimeKeeper575 3d ago
In some places distributors freeze them until the price is right then trick you into buying useless navocados. coughnyccough
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u/Lupus_Spiritus_42 3d ago
I was thinking the same thing. Have had an avocado that looked mushy like this that had accidentally been put in the freezer with a bag of groceries. After defrosting and cutting into it, it was like premade guac inside
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u/Gurnitz 4d ago
Looks like it was frozen at a point
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u/Deinocerites 3d ago
Refrigerated storage either too long or too cold. I used to work in tree fruits. Peaches also get the slimy texture under the skin.
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u/LooseFurJones 3d ago
They arenāt sending their best š¤£
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u/depth_of_the_wild 3d ago
This!
As someone from Canada who started seeing MUCH better avocados once š started a trade war, they are definitely sending better products to the people who appreciate them.
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u/bungopony 4d ago
Funny what happens when your labour supply gets sent to a gulag
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u/hiphoppocampus 3d ago
Looks like all the Americans bitching about being unemployed have some opportunities in the avocado industry.
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u/Plastic-Hornet-9382 3d ago
Where do you think avocados come from? Real question
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u/Tommy8505 3d ago
...Mexico? š¤
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u/Plastic-Hornet-9382 3d ago
Correct.
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u/MessyJessyLeigh 3d ago
Pretty sure there are some avocado farms in cali too, but I've been wrong before!
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u/Soraya_disabled_life 3d ago
Yes, we have them in California. š and I'm still having to pay 2/$4 and $5 here in my area.
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u/Intelligent-Treat676 3d ago
Just went to my Mexican store .50 cents no limit and they're beautiful and Mexican not the Peru ones
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u/Exotic-Sample9132 3d ago
Shit. I always forget that little mercado exists and I'm over here paying dollars per like a bitch.
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u/Emergency-Crab-7455 3d ago
Just read an article in one of my husband's agricultural trade magazines.......Calif. growers are starting to pull out avacado trees due to water shortage & are replacing them with almonds. Avacados need a lot of water to produce marketable fruit, while almond trees don't need as much.
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u/shade-block 2d ago
Here in Miami, almost every backyard has the much bigger light green type of avocado. You have to put them in a brown paper bag and close it for them to ripen properly tho.
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u/PinchiChongo 3d ago
Many remain. I live adjacent to Fallbrook the former Avocado Capitol of the world. There are fewer groves but we crank millions out.
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u/dankhimself 3d ago
I wonder how much an American avacado costs compared to one grown in Mexico.
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u/Needashortername 3d ago
The really interesting statistics compare the income from just avocados going from Mexico to the US to the income from some of their less legal sources for the cartels.
It is thought by some that a few of the āwarsā were more about avocados than some of their other trade.
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u/dankhimself 3d ago
I never saw the appeal personally, but many people can't get enough of those things.
It's on every sandwich and in every burrito in some places, it's a solid product.
They even made fake ones to smuggle contraband in for awhile and got away with it.
Versatile!
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u/MapsBySeamus 3d ago
I loved avocados when I was living in California. Hass avocados were my favorite, but I would take any I could get.
I'm now on Missouri, and I would rather buy premade guacamole because the avocados out here are just horrible.
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u/Needashortername 3d ago
People do call them a āsuperfoodā plus there is the all knowing power and influence of āBig Guacāā¦and if you felt Big Pharma had control of their marketplace donāt even try to fight the Guac. The GBMs (Guac Benefits Management companies) are just not to be trifled with
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u/dirty_water_5698 3d ago
Thatās easy to answer. They cost less because they are worse quality and not imported.
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u/EnkiduTheGreat 3d ago
The good ones. The Peruvian ones we got during the usda inspection scandal a few years back were gross.
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u/Plastic-Hornet-9382 3d ago
Right. The US only produces a tiny percentage of the avocados we produce. Thereās no way our fruit/vegetable imports wonāt be affected by all the trade instability caused by trump policies
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u/esmeradio 2d ago
Could be Peruvian or coming from Ecuador. For my money, Mexico avocado is the best
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u/Dangerous-Dataranger 3d ago
Rotting while the tariff wars continue. They also went from cheap to $.88 each in Nebaska. They were the #1 import to the USA BEFORE TRUMP. Those who voted for this, you are just beginning to see whatās coming for you to make America Poorer Again. ENJOY!!
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u/Gentle_Genie 3d ago
88 cents is still cheap for an avocado. They are like $3 a avocado in WA state
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u/TexasLife34 3d ago
Uh we get the majority of our avocados from Mexico wtf you on about. Tf does everything have to be political?
We literally import 90% of our avocados.
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u/DesertedSoul937 3d ago
Little known facts is the Mexican cartel has spread out its Investments and avocados are one thing that Mexican cartel has taken over. They are also doing this with tomatoes a tomato farmer that was married to a influencer in Mexico was recently killed because he refused to give up his tomato selling territory. At least that's the theory him and his family were all found deceased in a vehicle wrapped in plastic.
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u/AlchemyAlice 3d ago
The couple found in the car with their 2 kids? Is that the one? I didnāt know he was a farmer and it was cartel related. Fuck.
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u/Bane8080 3d ago
Another reason for me to never eat avocados. Buying them supports Mexican cartels.
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u/ThirtySevenCents 3d ago
This same thing happened to the last two avocados I bought also. Weird indeed.
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u/tragedy_strikes_ 3d ago
It looks it was put in a fridge prematurely then taken out to ripen.
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u/YamClassic53 3d ago
Interesting, Iām not informed on this clearly. Is that what grocery stores do? Is that the route for avocados before they get to the US? I bought these at Aldis.
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u/GeniusBeetle 3d ago
I think this is the right answer. They were transported in containers that were too cold. Thatās why they donāt fully ripen. Avocados should only be refrigerated after theyāre fully ripened.
Source: I own an avocado tree.
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u/Mister_Green2021 3d ago
They picked it before the fat levels achieve an appropriate level. I got a bad batch too. Usually we count on Mexican avocados but it's not happening this year.
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u/acrankychef 3d ago
Overripe. Put avos in water and in the fridge when they are ripe to slow down them ripening more.
Those rock hard bumps on the outside are bug bites.
Get credit on avos with them. Edit: this isn't r/kitchenconfidential scratch that.
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u/No-Juice-2431 3d ago
Tarifs, stores lower quality to mitigate some of the price increase, they are using a combination of tactics to limit inflation due to tarifs. I doesn't matter what they do we will all pay more for less
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u/astreeter2 3d ago
Don't buy the ones out of the giant pile that hundreds of people have squeezed to see if they're ripe enough because they end up like this. Buy the ones that come presorted in bags, they're always much better.
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u/Vox_Mortem 3d ago
I've been getting ones that are almost woody inside. Like, the flesh looks beautifully green and ripe, but it's strangely hard, almost like biting into rubber. They're completely inedible. But then others are fine, so I don't know what's going on.
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u/SansLucidity 3d ago
genetic engineering.
bananas were all off 1-2 years ago until big chains started refusing delivery.
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u/WTFpe0ple 2d ago
I eat avocado every day on everything but I would not stick that one in my mouth. Something wrong with that one.
PSA: get a vacuum sealer. Get avocado let ripen on counter. Cut in half, eat half, put other half in vacuum bag WITH seed and suck all the air out.
Will stay good in the fridge for 5-7 days still as green as it was.
I stage mine. Get a green one, a darker green one and a almost ripe one. I eat half of each one of them first and seal the other half. Then I have days to finish all the other halves.
PITA but they be 2.50 each here.
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u/Riicch_Show56 2d ago
Iām trying to figure out, how did you DeSkin an Avo from the back like that?! š¤š¤£
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u/fren2allcheezes 3d ago
Same thing happened to me! It was hard near the seed but almost overripe on the fleshier parts.
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u/FoggyGoodwin 3d ago
My store avocados have small bruises, but none have been this overripe. Because I don't use AC, I keep them in the fridge during summer months and use the softest one next. This one has been off the tree too long IMHO
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u/mandinga269 3d ago
Iāve been having issues with avocados here too They ripen weird half soft half hard different colours brighter green dark green They are unusable We quit buying them
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u/Dangerous-Friend-498 3d ago
I wonder if it could be related to this:
https://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2025/08/21/cadmium-peruvian-avocados/
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u/Tiny_Stand5764 3d ago
While interesting, I don't think cadmium would change the appearance of an avocado
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u/Moni_HH 3d ago
Check out this video. Dr. Berg explains it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5xrgZg8qc4
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u/Tx_Drewdad 3d ago
Probably got partially or completely frozen, and this goop is what you have left after it thawed.
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u/Pin3appleg1rl 3d ago
Bought some at Costco and most of the avocados in the bag were like this. So depressing!!! And so not worth the money. The orange label ones, were always good. I think itās the California ones that are good. They need to bring those back.
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u/DinosaurAlive 3d ago
Iāve had bad luck with a lot of the smaller avocados being like this. So far, all the big avocados Iāve gotten recently have all been good. There have been a few times I go to check the little ones and they super cold, so they must have been frozen like people are saying. Not sure if itās at store level or on the trucks? I donāt know. But I do suggest getting the big ones. Theyāve had better texture and taste in my opinion. More expensive, but less chance of getting a dud.
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u/SonUnforseenByFrodo 3d ago
I agree the last year I have not been able to get a avocado that didn't have problems. I thought it was just me
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u/Careless_Hornet_5459 3d ago
Yea even my fresh green clean looking ones are like plasticy inside. Sumpinnotright
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u/scarredballsack 3d ago
Everytime someone mentions avocado toast I'm left wondering if the world had gone topsy-turvy. Why would you want the devils mucus on your bread.. what's wrong with butter/margarine, or just jam?
.why doe the humble bread/toast suffer the undeserved fate of being covered in green muck.
It's true I'm no fan of avocado, in any shape or form..
Oh that avocado was just over ripe..
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u/GasNo6070 3d ago
Iāve heard that now they freeze them to transport farther. But when they thaw, they look like this. š
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u/erutuferutuf 3d ago
If u are talking about the little balls/holes, These are called "stones", they are caused by insect damage. It's a defence mechanism from the fruit itself
See page 14 of this doc https://avocado.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Avocado-Fruit-Quality-Problem-Solver.pdf
But if u are talking about the mushy texture, that's a bit too ripe and also a bit rotten near the top.
Bottom line I would skip this one
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u/SnooGoats7454 3d ago
How long have you had this avocado? How soft was it when you touched it? Did you touch the whole thing or just poke one spot? Did you cut all the way through to the pit?
If the avocado is ripe the knife should slide to the pit like it's going through melted butter after you cut the skin.
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u/Mountain-Mixture-862 3d ago
they're not making fake food, take your antipsychotic
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u/Dazzling-Ice-4762 3d ago
I heard they are using a gas to ripen them faster- thus taking them before they should to sell then gassing them to ripen them- uneven ripeness and streaks of black running through them- yours are worse!
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u/Temporary_Animal_022 3d ago
That happened to mine the other week too. Twisted it and the skin came off instead of splitting in half. Just like this.
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u/TrollDeMortLunchBox 3d ago
Iāve had the same in the UK. You cut them and they end up being striated brown and greenāthatās if they āripenā at all. We have Colombian Haas avocados in my area right now. Maybe a regional thing?
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u/HotBaseball9450 3d ago
They may be getting past inspectors who are not experienced as those sent to concentration centers.Hopefully America gets use to bad produce.Germany adjusted to it rather quickly once the first stages of starvation began.My father liberated a death camp in Austria in May 1945. He said they were so shocked at finding them they just gave them everything they had on them including cigarettes which they tried to eat as well. Many ended up dying because their bodies couldnāt handle food like normal and their organs shut down.What seems like questionable food now looks way different when you donāt eat for four or five days.
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u/----Clementine---- 3d ago edited 2d ago
I ate an avocado like this once. It was the best damn avocado of my life.
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u/Ok_Salad_502 3d ago edited 3d ago
I donāt know They do have different types of avacados
My best guess is Our food is less and less healthy
The soil the fertilizer chemicals in the water Our weather
But itās mostly GREED They use the cheapest of what they can legally get away with
At least avacados have skin to protect against some pesticides If you get a few that seem just a little bit of a give But them - & just know thereās no shelf life at all it seems
Too bad I know
They are very very healthy !!
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u/WildNeighborhood6307 3d ago
I no longer buy avocados from Walmart. I think they may have that apeel on them which changes how they look on the outside (fresh) but when you cut them open you find them oddly aged. I buy them from Giant Eagle and they are perfect.
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u/Competitive_Jump_933 3d ago
Weird, but I live in the middle of the US St Louis area) and we have had some beautiful avocados for quite some time. It's not like we don't hardly buy them. We go through 5-8 a week.
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u/frysatsun 3d ago edited 3d ago
I just opened one like this tonight. I've never had it happen before. I said to my husband that I can't remember the last time that we had a decent avocado. They are hard as a rock or mushy and brown or go straight from rock to brown.
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u/SuitableAnimator4118 3d ago
This has happened to me also recently. Iāve gotten some that look and feel like they are perfectly ripe but once cut they either have really hard spots, super soft spots, or an unpleasant banana-like smell /taste.
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u/kaycaps 3d ago
So I make the guacamole at my job meaning Iām dealing with hundreds of avocados on a weekly basis. It looks like it wasnāt fully ripe enough and also maybe received some kind of damage before it got to the store. Iāve heard bugs biting into the avocado can cause the bumps like that. You could probably just take it back to the store and exchange it for another avocado I know grocery stores will do exchanges for less lol. Unfortunately avocados can be very finicky like that.
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u/luckylesla 3d ago
Hello! I had an avocado tree for a long time and the advice I can give you is to cut them while they are still green. Since they have just formed and have a good size. Then you wrap them with newspaper and in 3-4 days (depending on your climate) they will be at their perfect point. If you let them ripen on the tree, they tend to rot more easily, as happened to you.
It is better to remove them green and control their ripening āŗļø
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u/Jolly_Draw_9778 3d ago
I also have weird avocado things happening, I keep mine in the fridge, but they went from all hard to parts mushy and spotty, and some parts still hard, in a day. The skin has been super flakey too- usually I can quarter them and peel the skin but theyre kinda dry and hard? just flaking off lol
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u/AddictedtoLife181 3d ago
I was thinking this earlier this week. Wtf is with avocadosā¦ I bought one and it was perfect, until I opened it a few days later and it was pretty much rotten. Waste of money and I was disappointed. Itās like finding gold when you actually get a good one.
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u/ninhibited 3d ago
I have found out recently that you shouldn't put them in the fridge before they're totally ripe aka if they ripen in the cold they get weird and slimy. I still ate them though and they tasted fine.
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u/Ok-Row-6246 3d ago edited 3d ago
I do know if they're picked too early, they never ripen properly, and stay rubbery.
Edit: I just asked my Mexican friend who eats avocados for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And I'm pretty sure she sleeps with one under her pillow at night. She said it looks way overripe. And she would not eat it.
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u/Spicy_Map-9922 3d ago
Same thing happening to everything else in grocery stores these days. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING taste like it used to. Grocery shopping gives me anxiety. We donāt know wth weāre eating these days! š¤¦š½āāļø
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u/Prestomom168 3d ago
I had a bag of avocados that were like this. Weird hard spots. They said 'Avocados from Peru'
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u/StoicandFaded 3d ago
Lol I had this exact thing happen to me this morning the top half of the rind just slipped right off after I cut around it and I thought awesome easy peel!! I think it's from letting them get a little too ripe I don't know. Mine still tasted fine so I looked at it as a plus.
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u/hateplow0331 3d ago
I stopped buying avocados years back because of this. Was hoping for a real answer here but itās just nonsense .
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u/MistressBassKitty 3d ago
My last one did this and I tossed it.
Before that, I cut straight through the pit š³
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u/MySneakyAltNSFWAcc 3d ago
Theyāre typically called avocado stones, caused by the fruit spotting bug.
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u/Muted_Owl_1006 3d ago
I stopped buying them. I went through a couple months where they were too green to eat when purchased, hard to even cut with a knife. Like that for several days in a row, then overnight super-soft and rotten when cut. Lost count of how many I threw away. Havenāt bought one since.
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u/Prestigious-Pack-146 3d ago
Yes I've had same issue. One avocado would be partially ripe, part over ripe and part not ripe/hard. I've had no problems with them until about a month ago.
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u/thetalkingblob 3d ago
I bet you itās some kind of ag storage -> fast ripening system that isnāt working well
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u/surfcitysurfergirl 3d ago
Itās where youāre buying them. I buy many every week and NEVER have any like that.
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u/KillerRayvenX 3d ago
There's about a 3 second window between unripe and rotten where an avocado is perfect. You missed the window.
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u/Environmental_Win997 3d ago
You have to restore the heart of Te Fiti. Sorry you have been chosen, you gotta go find some guy called Maui
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u/Resident-Spirit808 3d ago
Tren De Argagua is having trouble importing them because of all the drug shit weāre putting on them š¤·āāļø
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u/vapestores 3d ago
I used to work at Taco Bell. This looks fine. We use avocados like this all the time. Just mix it in your burrito and nobody notices.
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u/No_Profit_2906 3d ago
We arenāt getting avocados from Mexico anymore. They are coming from Peru and they suck ass!!! Thanks Trump for pissing off Mexico!!!
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u/LumberSniffer 3d ago
I had the same issue lately. Had 2 avocados that were only ripe on the bottom, even after 10 days. This has been going on all summer.
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u/Appropriate-Put9506 3d ago
I only buy avacados from Aldi, the mini ones in a bag. I buy them every week for 3 years and in all that time I've only had 3 or four bad ones.
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u/PhotojournalistOk592 3d ago
They're out of season. Hot house grown avocados are hit and miss. Almost every restaurant I've worked in stops getting them after July/August because they're super inconsistent. You might be able to get it to finish ripening by storing it next to either apples or bananas, but I haven't tested that
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u/dirty_water_5698 3d ago
Itās the farm. I worked at a restaurant that used avocados a lot and once or twice we got these mushy on the outside hard as rubber on the inside avocados they looked so nice and green but the were so hard. They were from a different farm that week than the farm our supplier normally got them from for whatever reason
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u/Signal-Tangerine1597 3d ago
This like when here in the UK people moan about certain fruits or vegetables being different but when you want these items year round, there's always going to be challenges, with global cultivation Avacados are grown all year round but from different hemispheres! So the idea that consistency should and always will be there is puzzling.
It's like we sell "wonky" fruit and vegetables cheaper, like there is a difference in quality?!
I hope you got to have a nice lunch or dinner though!
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u/Odd_Introduction3576 4d ago
Avocadonts