In recent years, the world has become undeniably penchant about avocados. The avocado toast has risen and fallen, and food bloggers have challenged each other to cut increasingly beautiful avocado roses.
All of these trends, however, have been almost exclusively about the more commonly known, California-grown Hass avocado. Little has been said about its lesser-known cousin, the “Slimcado,” otherwise known as a Florida avocado.
While the Hass avocado has rough, darker skin, the skin of a Slimcado is a much brighter shade of green, and the fruit is much larger than its Californian counterpart. The Hass avocado is known for being creamy and difficult to cut because of its texture, but the Slimcado holds together well because its flesh is quite fibrous.
Beneath the surface, the two avocados also differ in terms of nutrition. Hass avocados have always been cited as containing many healthy fats necessary and beneficial to a person’s health. A cup of a Hass avocado typically contains 368 calories and 33.7 grams of fat. In contrast, a cup of Slimcado contains only 276 calories and 23.1 grams of fat – perhaps unsurprising, given its name.
The lack of fat in the Slimcado though, also correlates to a higher concentration of water in the fruit. As a result, the Slimcado is chewier than the Hass avocado, leaving much to be said about an avocado’s familiar, warm, creamy texture. A couple Cooking Light employees sampled the Slimcado and determined that the fruit is much sweeter than expected, rendering it a poor substitute of the Hass avocado.
Given the nutritional facts of the Slimcado, it seems likely that this Florida fruit will soon become another healthy-living staple, but maybe this particular avocado trend will be one that is far more blissfully short-lived than its predecessors.
