Daily hacks: Three ways to preserve your avocados

Just like bananas, avocados are one of the most frustrating fruits when it comes to preserving them, because they tend to spoil and become overripe in a super short space of time.

If you have bought avocados this week, that means you may need to eat them before the week ends to avoid having to throw them out once they have gone bad.

These three easy and efficient life hacks, however, can help in preserving your avocados a little longer to give you and your family the chance to eat them before they become too ripe.

Submerging your avocado in water and storing it in the fridge

This hack seams to be the easiest hack of them all. The Simple Life Pleasure’s TikTok page has shared a video on how you can preserve an open, half eaten avocado by just using water and storing the avocado in the fridge.

In the video, the user puts one half of the avocado in a large bowl, and then pours water over the avo and into the bowl, and fills the bowl up just before the water reaches the brim of the bowl.

The user then suggests putting the bowl in the fridge and keeping it there until you are ready to eat the fruit.

This hack prevents the avocado turning brown and ripening too quickly.

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Lemon juice and a paper towel

This next preserving trick has a lot more factors involved in it, but works well when you aim to preserve your open avocado for more than two days.

TikTok user Trifecta Bruja has shared a video on their page on how they store and preserve their avocados using lemon juice, a paper towel and a zip lock bag.

In the video, Trifecta Bruja splashes lemon juice all over their avo, places a paper towel onto the avo, and then puts the avo into a zip lock bag which they then store in the fridge.

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Olive oil hack

This last hack makes use of just simple olive oil to preserve your avocados and prevent them from going brown in a short space of time.

Mama in the Kitchen has shared a video on TikTok where she simply rubs her half eaten avocado with olive oil, and makes sure that the whole part that is exposed is covered in the olive oil. She then stores the avo in the fridge until she is ready to eat it.

The olive oil prevents oxidization and keeps the avocado fresh.

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