We Americans love our coffee. How much? According to Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, more than half of all Americans over the age of 18 drink coffee every day. On average, we drink 3.1 9-ounce cups of coffee each day for a whopping economic outlay of $40 billion each year. Yep, we love our coffee.
You know what else Americans love? Avocados. Since we learned about the avocado’s extraordinary health benefits (60 percent more potassium than bananas; rich in B vitamins, vitamin E, vitamin K and folate, and of course it contains ‘good’ fat, whatever that is), we’ve upped our per capita consumption from 1.1 pound in 1989 to 7 pounds in 2014.
With two food items that Americans love so much, why hasn’t somebody figured out a way to combine the two? They could make a fortune, right?
Well, someone had. But that someone isn’t an American. The Truman Café in Melbourne, Australia has beaten U.S. baristas to the punch by introducing the “Avolatte,” a frothy coffee drink served in an avocado husk, with a bit of the avocado flesh remaining. Sounds refreshing, doesn’t it? No, we don’t think so either.