{"id":13266,"date":"2015-11-09T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2015-11-09T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:54:39","slug":"how-avocados-came-to-rule-the-worldor-at-least-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/how-avocados-came-to-rule-the-worldor-at-least-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"How Avocados Came To Rule The World\u2026Or At Least Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/110915_1352_HowAvocados1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"526\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everywhere you look people are posting about their latest Avocado based food. Emine Sander and Martin Morales took a look at how the Avocado managed to establish its dominance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People used to be disappointed by avocados. Thinking it was a pear they would bite into it and be confused by its mushy bland taste.<\/li>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t help that it was known as the &#8220;alligator pear&#8221; or ahuacate which translated to &#8216;testicle&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Then in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century farmers came together and decided to adopt the name &#8220;avocado&#8221; to make it more marketable to the world.<\/li>\n<li>Retailers have also done a better job of figuring out how to use ethylene gas to ripen it by the time it&#8217;s sold. In the past consumers would have to wait several days for it to ripen at home.<\/li>\n<li>In 1995 South African farmers hired a British PR firm to help sell avocados and growth soared.<\/li>\n<li>Initial marketing campaigns focused on basic things like how people should eat avocados \u2013 slice them open rather than bite into them.<\/li>\n<li>Then the focus of the campaign shifted to the health benefits. It was called a &#8220;super food,&#8221; although that&#8217;s largely a meaningless term that can (and has) been applied to almost every vegetable.<\/li>\n<li>There was a bit of a backlash when consumers realized how fatty avocados are \u2013 a single one can have 400 calories and 40g of fat.<\/li>\n<li>However, consumers were told that there are good and bad kinds of fat \u2013 and that avocados were composed mostly of the good kind.<\/li>\n<li>Due to a poor growing season supplies are contracting, and coupled with a 30% increase in demand in the last year alone, prices are expected to soar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about its history over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/nov\/02\/avocados-ripe-ready-evil-geniuses-hooked\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/nov\/02\/avocados-ripe-ready-evil-geniuses-hooked\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere you look people are posting about their latest Avocado based food. Emine Sander and Martin Morales took a look at how the Avocado managed to establish its dominance: People used to be disappointed by avocados. Thinking it was a pear they would bite into it and be confused by its mushy bland taste. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/110915_1352_HowAvocados1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13269,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/13269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}