Avocados | Fruits From Chile

Avocados

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Overview

Chile has been growing commercial varieties of avocados for nearly 100 years, but avocado cultivation started increasing dramatically in the late 1980’s due to increasing demand from global markets.  Chile continues to grow other varieties that are marketed domestically, but most production has shifted to the Hass variety.  Over 99% of the avocados exported from Chile are Hass avocados. Chilean avocados are available from September through March.

Nutrition

One-third of a medium avocado (50g) has 80 calories and contributes nearly 20 vitamins and minerals, making it a great nutrient dense food choice.

Good monounsaturated fats can be found naturally in olive oil, nuts and yes, you guessed it, avocados! In fact, Avocados are the only fruit with the good fats we need. Plus, they’re completely cholesterol free, sugar fee and sodium free. Just one serving of avocado a day provides 12% of the recommended daily fiber intake, and one third of an avocado contains 10% of the recommended daily intake of folate.

Nutrition Facts >

How to Select, Store and Handle Avocados

Gently squeeze the fruit in the palm of your hand; ripe fruit will yield to pressure.

To ripen, place the avocados in a brown paper bag with a banana for approximately two days to speed things up.

The Hass avocado will turn dark green or black as it ripens.

Ripe avocados can be stored uncut in the refrigerator for at least 2-3 days; to store cut fruit, brush or sprinkle with lemon or lime juice and place in an air-tight container.

TRADE

Merchandising

  • Market on health! Avocados present a unique nutritional package that is unmatched in any other fruit, so communicate that to shoppers.
  • Display avocados that are at different stages of ripeness.
  • Identify ripe avocados with “ripe” or “ready to eat” point of sale materials; rotate displays, placing ripe avocados on top and removing those that are overripe.
  • Cross-merchandise with complementary items in displays to encourage impulse purchases.

Availability Chart

 

STATISTICS

Total Volume Exported

2013-2014

2014-2015

2015-2016

2016-2017

2017-2018

2018-2019

2019-2020

2020-2021

Destination

  •     Europe 75,0%
  • Latin America 13,8%
  • Far East 9,7%
  • North America 1,5%
View Exporters

Agrícola Roberto Valenzuela E.I.R.L
info@agrovalenz.cl
+(56) 33 2272686
www.agrovalenz.cl

AGRICOM – Sociedad Agrícola y Comercial Ltda.
fmira@agricom.cl
+(56) 224313200
www.agricom.cl

Baika


Compañía Frutera del Norte S.A.
gonzalomarin@cfn.cl
+(56) 512471300
www.cfn.cl

Del Monte Fresh Produce (Chile) S.A.
epino@freshdelmonte.com
+(56) 223614600
www.freshdelmonte.com

Exportadora Green Valley Ltda.
lmarchant@gls.cl
+(56) 224994400
www.gls.cl

Exportadora Prize Ltda.
agh@prize.cl
+(56) 722584880
www.prize.cl

Exportadora San Clemente S.A.
fhughes@sclem.cl
+(56) 223223000
www.sclem.cl

Exportadora Unifrutti Traders Ltda.
mrufin@unifrutti.com
+(56) 226362200
www.unifrutti.com

Sociedad Agrícola La Rosa Sofruco S.A.
fjrencoret@sofruco.cl
+(56) 226700600
www.sofruco.cl

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