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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Campbell

Alan Titchmarsh says he avoids avocados because of climate impact

Alan Titchmarsh at the Chelsea Flower Show in September 2021.
Alan Titchmarsh at the Chelsea flower show in September. The gardener said he was a ‘devoted Shreddies fan’. Photograph: Nick Harvey/Rex/Shutterstock

The TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh has said he refuses to eat avocados for breakfast because of their “enormous carbon footprint” and much prefers Shreddies.

Writing in Gardeners’ World magazine, Titchmarsh said he could not bear the idea of “forcing” down the “insipid” fruit first thing in the morning, before suggesting that he believed it should be boycotted on environmental grounds.

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