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A sustainable avocado alternative – it takes around 320 litres of water to grow and ship a single avocado.

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A student has developed an avocado substitute that takes less water to produce than the real thing

Spotted: Avocados are healthy and extremely popular, but they are also a particularly resource-intensive crop. Every year, 11 billion pounds of avocados are eaten around the world – many of them produced in Mexico. And producing all those avocados uses up an unsustainable amount of water – it takes around 320 litres of water to grow and ship a single avocado. Moreover, the carbon footprint of that single avocado is also about the same as a whole kilo of bananas.

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