Chip Chick
It’s not exactly news that keeping avocados fresh is a pretty precarious process, and it’s like as soon as you get them home from the grocery store they’re just a few days away at best from being a questionable addition to guacamole or toast.
Well, leave it to social media to solve this mystery!
I’m sure you’ve seen this trend making its way around social media: people putting their avocados in water in order to store them for maximum freshness.
One woman even went viral on Facebook for sharing this hack, and she said in her post, “Avocado lovers sit down because I’m about to change your life.”
“Did y’all already know this?? Avocados stay good for-freaking-ever if you put them in water in the fridge.”
“These have been in here for two whole dang weeks while the control group on the countertop rotted. They’re perfect. I’m speechless.”
She later said in an update to her post that she left one avocado underwater for an entire month (yes, 4 weeks) and it still was in “perfect” condition.
It seems like a pretty good way to hack the ripeness and perfection of your avocados, but apparently, it’s not the best thing to be doing.
A spokesperson for the FDA spoke to Today recently about this, saying, “The FDA does not recommend this practice.”
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