Hand surgeons are seeing a lot more avocado-related hand injuries. According to research, thousands of people slice their hands and fingers annually while cutting avocados primarily between April ...

Related injuries? Let us explain… If you’ve ever tried to cut through an avocado with a knife (and, let’s face it, who hasn’t by this point?), then you’ll know that it’s an incredibly ...

An estimated 50,413 people in the US had avocado-related knife injuries between 1998 to 2017, according to a study published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine in 2020. Dubbing the ...

thus reducing the possibility of avocado injury – something that one medical organisation says claims at least four casualties a week, as people slip up while trying to skewer the stone or cut ...