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Food & Drink

How long is an avocado?

An avocado is about 10 cm (3.94 in) long.

What is measured: whole fruit, length

Avocado (10 cm) drawn to scale beside a large coin (2.4 cm) and a smartphone (14.7 cm)
Drawn to scale, from left to right: Large coin (2.4 cm), Avocado (10 cm) and Smartphone (14.7 cm).

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How big is that, really?

  • A little longer than a credit card
  • About 68% of the height of a smartphone
  • About 26% of the height of a bowling pin
  • About 4.2× the width of a large coin
  • As long as about 14 grains of rice end to end

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Facts about Avocado

An avocado is botanically a single-seeded berry, despite being commonly treated as a vegetable in cooking.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica — Avocado; USDA FoodData Central — Avocados, raw, all commercial varieties

Food & Drink

NameSizeCompared with Avocado
Orange8 cm (3.15 in)0.8×
Potato8 cm (3.15 in)0.8×
Beetroot8 cm (3.15 in)0.8×
Onion8 cm (3.15 in)0.8×
Hamburger10 cm (3.94 in)same size
Avocado10 cm (3.94 in)this page
Bell pepper10 cm (3.94 in)same size
Pomegranate10 cm (3.94 in)same size
Soda can12 cm (4.72 in)1.2×
Grapefruit12 cm (4.72 in)1.2×

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Which is bigger: Avocado or Soda can?

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