Living Well: Summer Snack Injuries and How to Prevent Them

Preparing fresh summer snacks can be dangerous.

In today’s Living Well, we learn about injuries while cutting certain fruits that are so common there’s a name for it: “Avocado hand.”

A 2020 Emory University study found over four years, more than 27-thousand U.S. Emergency room visits were attributed to an injury while opening an avocado. Most of those happen on weekends between April and July.

This is mainly because of the way people cut their fruit, holding it in their hands instead of on a cutting board.

Doctors say the safest way to avoid an injury at home is to place the avocado or other fruit on a cutting board and run the knife through.