Alan Titchmarsh issues warning to anyone eating avocados

has issued an urgent warning to any Brits who eat avocados.

The Love Your Weekend star, 75, has urged fans to ditch the popular breakfast item, which has been criticised for its environmental impact. Calling for a full boycott of the fruit, Alan also cited a steep rise in hand injuries from Britons trying to pry the stone from its centre with a sharp knife.

The star said: “There is a simple solution to avoiding injury when removing the stone from an avocado: don’t eat them. Most of those sold in the UK are grown where the rainforest has been felled at an alarming rate to accommodate them.”

Speaking to The Times, he said: “They are then shipped, often more than 5,000 miles across the ocean, as breakfast for supposedly environmentally friendly consumers,” before urging fans to opt for “Conflakes, Weetabix and Shreddies” as alternative breakfast items.

The Sustainable Food Trust chimed in to agree with Alan, stating: “Despite bold claims that avocados are a clean and sustainable superfood, the reality is that avocados have serious consequences.”

It comes after Titchmarsh warned in 2024 that if the UK fails to pay its farmers decent prices in favour of cheap food imports from abroad, crops will no longer be grown on British soil at all. He said on the Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast: “When we were little, in the 1950s, 30% of the household income was spent on food.

“Nowadays it’s between 8% and 12% on food – we spend more on leisure and recreation than we do on food. As a result of which we won’t pay more for food because it’s cheap in the supermarkets, therefore why should we pay more when we get it for that – as a result of which we’re getting more and more cheap imports.”

He added: “Our good soil, in the British Isles, is being turned over to solar panels, when it could grow good food – to solar panels to save energy which will allow foreign food to be brought over, using the energy that we’ve saved.”