--- title: Trader Joe's Is Selling 'Teeny Tiny' Avocados description: One upside of the Trader Joe's Teeny Tiny avocados is that they offer up just enough creamy meat for a single open-faced avocado toast canonical: https://time.com/4794046/trader-joes-teeny-tiny-avocados/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-25T14:33:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:56.076Z og:title: Tiny Avocados Exist, So Start Toasting the Teeny Toast Points og:description: These 'Teeny Tiny' avocados are sold at Trader Joe's og:url: https://time.com/4794046/trader-joes-teeny-tiny-avocados/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7638670910a9a3f/6988cedf656a3fb646bd028f/teenytiny.jpg?branch=production&width=500&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 500 og:image:height: 281 og:image:alt: TeenyTiny og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tiny Avocados Exist, So Start Toasting the Teeny Toast Points twitter:description: These 'Teeny Tiny' avocados are sold at Trader Joe's twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7638670910a9a3f/6988cedf656a3fb646bd028f/teenytiny.jpg?branch=production&width=500&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Better Believe People Are Sharing Photos of These 'Teeny Tiny Avocados' > Sponsored content. 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One upside is that avocados of this size offer up just enough creamy meat for a single open-faced avocado toast. This way, you can avoid food waste and eat all the spreadable goodness when it’s at the optimal ripeness. Trader Joe’s sells them in dark green mesh bags for $2.69 to $2.99 for half a dozen, while the most recent [U.S. Department of Agriculture data](https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/51035/avocados.xlsx?v=42082) shows that a typical Hass avocado retailed for $1.27 a pop. [Bon Appetit](http://www.bonappetit.com/story/trader-joes-tiny-avocados-omg) counsels that when the weather is poor, avocados can grow smaller — which is a problem because global demand for the nutritious high-protein, high-oil fruit is up, [Bloomberg reports](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/guacamole-costs-to-jump-as-avocado-shortage-sparks-record-prices). Brunching customers have taken notice, and it appears these avocados are just like others, except smaller and more photogenic. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4794046/trader-joes-teeny-tiny-avocados/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4794046/trader-joes-teeny-tiny-avocados/"},"headline":"You Better Believe People Are Sharing Photos of These 'Teeny Tiny Avocados'","datePublished":"2017-05-25T14:33:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:56.076Z","description":"Brunching customers have taken notice","url":"https://time.com/4794046/trader-joes-teeny-tiny-avocados/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7638670910a9a3f/6988cedf656a3fb646bd028f/teenytiny.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7638670910a9a3f/6988cedf656a3fb646bd028f/teenytiny.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TeenyTiny","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4794046/trader-joes-teeny-tiny-avocados/","name":"You Better Believe People Are Sharing Photos of These 'Teeny Tiny Avocados'"}}]}] ```