THE BLUEBERRY 🫐 WAR ON THE HORIZON
Probably one of the greatest stories in the Produce industry in the past ten 🔟 years is the phenomenal growth of Blueberries 🫐 and Avocado 🥑… Consumption has sky rocketed for both of these commodities while other crops in the Tropical world 🌎 (Think Banana 🍌 mango 🥭 and pineapple 🍍) have stagnated… This is due in large part to the KETO DIET … which means that there are very few fruits and vegetables that are not sugar, Carbohydrates, and can be consumed without affecting our bodies in a negative way … These two 2️⃣ commodities have benefitted amazingly… now here is the rub: Avocado 🥑 is not the same across the board nutritionally ..so that there are big differences in demand for different cultivars … and the big winner in the avocado 🥑 world 🌎 is the HASS avocados 🥑 add to this the fact that HASS AVOCADOS don’t perform the same from a physiological point of view around the world 🌎 Avocado 🥑 is believed to have originated in modern day Guatemala 🇬🇹...
