People love avocados, but they sometimes question if they should really eat them as often as they want to. Thanks to nutrition research through the Avocado Nutrition Center, the answer is yes: consumers can and should eat avocados!
The positive links between avocados and better health are drivers of purchase. Now the question, how do we get this science to consumers and grow consumer demand?
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A comprehensive consumer resource:
Strongly rooted in market research, Fresh Avocados – Love One Today® was launched as a leading source on the healthiest reasons (and tastiest ways!) to enjoy fresh avocados.
Backed by science, Love One Today®, and Spanish language Saborea Uno Hoy®, is an educational resource that’s comprehensive with resources that are constantly current and culturally relevant.
Plus, it’s as easy to use as it is to enjoy an avocado!
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Dedicated to continued growth:
Avocado consumption in the U.S. has grown to 8.1 lbs. per capita in 2018, up from an average of 2.26 lbs per capita in 2000.(fig. 1)
This is an increase by over 258%, while total fresh fruit category grew by less than 9% during the same period. (fig. 2)
Fresh Avocados – Love One Today® has played a key role in that growth and is dedicated to seeing the market growth continue.
Avocado Consumption per Capita
Consumption per Capita: Fruit vs Avocado 2000-2018
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An avocado advocate for the industry:
Love One Today® equips the industry to successfully promote avocado health and nutrition regardless of country of origin or seasonality.
It brings clarity on nutrition benefits, breaks down how the latest science translates into everyday actions and gives everyone what we really want: permission to eat avocados every day.
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A recognizable nutrition resource:
FMI’s Grocery Shopper Trends shows that 82% of shoppers are actively looking for nutrition information on the front of a product.
The Fresh Avocados – Love One Today® mark and materials have proven to deliver that credible nutrition information.
Having the entire avocado industry involved is key to selling more avocados.
Take part in growing fresh avocado sales and promote avocado nutrition messages in your marketing program.
HOW IT WORKS:
1. Agree to terms
2. Look in your inbox for an email that will provide you access to the free Mark and QR Code.
3. Apply the Mark and/or QR Code to your packaging/marketing materials. Don’t forget to include the Nutrition Facts label when using the Mark at point-of-purchase.
4. Share on your social media channels and tag @LoveOneToday
“We see a great opportunity to spread the key messaging of health and wellness through the LOVE ONE TODAY messaging. We see the importance of a healthy diet continuing to be a major driver of growth in the Avocado category and thought that including it on our boxes and other packaging materials would benefit the retailer and the consumer. We have had positive results and feedback from consumers, retailers, and buyers throughout the country. Having the messaging be on all our cartons – both California-grown Avocados and imported Avocados – has helped keep the message clear, concise and consistent. And retailers are now accustomed to seeing the logo on every box they purchase. In all our marketing presentations and when producing sales sheets, health and nutrition and the HAB’s nutrition messaging efforts are always in sync with messaging.”
– Gahl C.
“Adding the Love One Today logo on our packages has delivered the important health information consumers need. Shoppers were able to learn more about avocados and we felt confident knowing that all of the nutrition communications are well researched and validated. This gives us the proven messages we need to drive sales.”
– Gary C.
“HAB is the driving force behind disseminating nutrition information on everything avocados. Using “Love One Today” resources, customers know they’re participating in the updated nutritional guidelines set out by the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and the USDA. With fresh avocados, Americans can start simple and incorporate modest changes each day that push them closer to meeting those recommendations. As a board we have a responsibility to make every bite count. Love One Today® is a powerful directive guiding Americans to healthy decisions every day.”
Give your shoppers convenient access to avocado nutrition facts and tips.
2016
Heart-Check Certification
Fresh Hass avocados, as well as all other raw fruits and vegetables, became eligible for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for the “Dietary Saturated Fat and Cholesterol and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease” health claim, earning the difficult-to-achieve American Heart Association Heart-Check Food Certification.
2021
BOLD Program
The BOLD initiative is a leadership development program designed to help train the next generation of HAB board members and avocado industry leadership. By equipping BOLD participants with training that they need to meaningfully contribute to the HAB board and to advocate for the avocado industry, HAB is investing in its future success.
2020
Quality Improvement
Helping to ensure fruit quality across all countries of origin led HAB to create a set of best practices for each step in the supply chain. The Avocado Quality Manual is the #1 download from the HAB site. The focus on quality provides substantial value to the collective industry as it seeks to deliver consistency and exceed customer and consumer expectations – one avocado at a time.
2013
Fresh Avocados – Love One Today®
Armed with a deep bench of highly credible nutrition research findings, HAB launched Love One Today®, a leading source of the healthiest reasons and tastiest ways to enjoy fresh avocados. The Love One Today® efforts that are still going strong today have helped to educate countless registered dietitians, health professionals, and consumers about the nutrition benefits of fresh avocados regardless of country of origin or seasonality, and ways to include them in everyday meals – literally changing public perception of the fruit and removing consumption barriers.
“Love One Today® has changed public opinion of avocados. Avocados were perceived to be a high-calorie fruit that had to be consumed in moderation. Today they are known as a nutrient-dense, heart-healthy fruit that you can enjoy and feel good about it.”
Emiliano Escobedo, Hass Avocado Board, Executive Director
2010
Avocado Nutrition Center
As the American palate was developing a taste for avocados, it was coming with some caveats around concerns about fat content and nutritional benefits. Could something this tasty really be good for you? HAB launched the Avocado Nutrition Center (ANC), a world-class nutrition research program to find out. During the past two decades, more than 40 nutrition studies conducted independently by researchers at top-tier institutions have been funded delving into the unique benefits of avocados on heart health, diabetes, weight management, cognitive function and more. The highly credible and transparent nutrition research findings have proven powerfully favorable for the little green fruit. In fact, the heart health-related studies helped avocados meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s definition of a “healthy” food. Without the ANC, most of the research into the avocado as a whole food wouldn’t exist.
“Time and time again trends circle back to nutrition, and as studies continue to fill the pipeline, we realize we are just scratching the surface of our understanding of how nutritionally dense and dimensional the avocado is for mankind.”
Scott Bauwens, Former Chairperson, Hass Avocado Board and CEO, Simpatica
2014
Hass Avocado Committee
The Hass Avocado Committee created a venue for discussion of motions at the committee level before going to the board for the final decision. Under this structure, domestic and foreign representatives now had a voice and input on important matters that came before the board, as well as a platform to solve industry challenges together. The Hass Avocado Committee was and remains a revolutionary step in building trust and fostering cooperation among competitors for the greater good.
“Becoming an independent organization meant we could own the vision. We had to build better relationships. The Hass Avocado Committee started with dialogue and bringing people together to broker cooperation. It took a lot of persistence.”
Bob Schaar, Former International Representation Committee Chairperson and Avocado Grower, California
2014
Avocado Volume and Inventory System (AVIS)
While the concept of data sharing is as old as HAB itself, in the early days, the quality was hampered by the pervasive mistrust among the HAB partners. Yet, over time as collaboration and cooperation evolved, so did the credibility and quality of the data inputs. The key players saw the value and built the Avocado Volume and Inventory System (AVIS) which became a widely successful global industry intelligence engine providing invaluable information related to U.S. avocado supply, inventory and sales.
“The information coming out of HAB on volumes is fantastic. HAB does a great job of listening and responding to our consumers and has done a very good job informing the industry on who our customers are and how to grow our business. We as marketers use this information to grow the entire avocado category and we share this information with our customers.”