You Should Wash Your Avocados Before Eating Them — Food News

Confession: I have never washed an avocado before eating it. I have never even thought about washing an avocado before eating it. That rough, thick outer shell just seems, to the naked eye, like a perfectly suitable layer of protection against disease, a far cry from the fragile leaves of say, my romaine lettuce. I'm going to start, though, and I suspect that many other people are in my position, because as it turns out, you do need to wash avocados. There's a chance they might be contaminated with listeria.

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