Hole-y guacamole! Avocado seeds could become a tasty snack

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Industrial production of cold-pressed avocado oil produces a large amount of avocado seed waste, but now Kiwi researchers have been able to extrude this waste into a porous puffed snack. This type of snack makes up around half of the ready-to-eat snack market. The extruded avocado seed product has a higher antioxidant capacity than brown rice or malted barley, and non-toxic levels of the toxins amygdalin and persin. The authors say the process looks promising, and now more work is needed to find out if customers would find the snack appealing.

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conference: Food Chemistry

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Organisation/s: AUT University, MacDiarmid Institute

Funder: The authors acknowledge the support of Olivado Ltd by providing the avocado seeds. The authors would like to thank Callaghan Innovation for supporting this research project under grant number OLIVA1701/57274-FELLOW-OLIVADO.

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