Zutano
Persea americana 'Zutano' · Fruit
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Zutano is a thin-skinned, pear-shaped green avocado with smooth, glossy, slightly shiny yellow-green skin that stays green when ripe — never blackening like Hass. Its pale, light-green flesh is watery and mild, lower in oil than Hass or even Fuerte, with a clean, faintly grassy taste rather than a deep buttery richness. A very cold-hardy Mexican-race cultivar, it is grown more as a hardy garden tree and as a Hass pollinizer than as a premium eating avocado.
Picking a good onedrag
UnderripeOverripe
Firm ripeBuy itSlices, wedges and fans that hold their edge.
FleshFirm; barely gives in the palm
SkinGreen going purple-black
StemButton on, dry at the edge
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What you get from one
74%
Edible part
201 g flesh · stone and skin out
272 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A hard one held a week below 5 °C pits, greys and never ripens. Ripe ones last days at 2-4 °C.
90-95%
Humidity
Loose and open
Airflow