Doctors are calling for warning labels on avocados.
Avocados are so dangerous, they may soon carry a warning label in the UK.
Amateur cooks just can’t seem to slice up the fruit — a staple of brunch fare and Mexican food — without also chopping into their hands, according to a report from the Times of London.
British surgeons have seen such a spike in the number of people who seriously injure themselves while trying to penetrate avocados’ rubbery skin and remove its finicky pit that they’ve dubbed the condition “avocado hand.”
The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons is demanding a warning label on the trendy food, which is actually quite healthy if consumers can manage to remove the skin and pit without also removing their own fingers.
The problem is so pervasive that doctors at London’s St. Thomas Hospital expect a “post-brunch surge” of avocado-related injuries on Saturdays, the paper reported.
A warning label could also include avoca-do’s and don’ts on how to safely dismantle the apparently hazardous fruit, according to one proponent.
“We don’t want to put people off the fruit, but I think warning labels are an effective way of dealing with this,” surgeon Simon Eccles told the Times of London. “Perhaps we could have a cartoon picture of an avocado with a knife, and a large red cross going through it?”
