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SUPERFRUITS A healthy diet contains a lot of fresh vegetables and fruit. The body needs about 30 different vitamins, minerals and other dietary components to function. In this respect, some fruits are especially healthy because they contain a high level of nutrients. This includes avocados, table grapes and blueberries.
In superfruits, we consider the nutrients and health benefits of the fruits, and we also include the total environmental impact of the cultivation, processing and transportation. We do this because human health is closely related to the environment. With a growing world population, who should all have access to healthy food, this puts pressure on the production systems. A pitfall is to produce high volume, low nutrient foods in agriculture systems with negative health and environmental impacts. The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health consists of world-leading scientists and aims to answer the question: Can we feed a future population of 10 billion people a healthy diet within planetary boundaries? Their answer is yes, but at the same time they state that it is impossible without transforming eating habits, improving food production and reducing food waste. They conclude that we need to eat less meat and sugar and much more highquality vegetables, fruits, legumes and nuts. Key components in that transition are to produce the right foods with high densities of nutrients and create awareness about them. On this page we describe some of the essential superfruits we produce.
AVOCADOS Avocados are the fruits of the avocado tree (Persea americana). There are many types of avocados that vary in shape and colour. We mainly grow the dark green, pebbly skinned Hass variety. Avocados are what you could call a "superfood". They have a high nutritional value and contain a wide variety of nutrients, including 20 different vitamins and minerals. Avocados have become incredibly popular worldwide, due to their great flavour and rich texture as well as health properties. If you were to live only on a single source of food, avocados would be an excellent choice.
We grow avocados in Peru, where our avocado groves thrive in the mild coastal climate. In total, we have 700 hectares in production, which we harvest between March and May. Our avocados are internationally recognised for their quality. We have obtained the Tesco Nurture Gold Standard Certification, as well as several Global G.A.P certifications.
