--- title: Scientists Are Seeking Avocado Addicts to Eat One Every Day description: Researchers are looking for participants to consume an avocado a day for six months — for free — in the name of science. canonical: https://time.com/5381756/avocado-eating-study/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-29T17:13:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:35.077Z og:title: Scientists Are Seeking Avocado Addicts to Eat One Every Day og:description: Guacamole lovers, this job is for you og:url: https://time.com/5381756/avocado-eating-study/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb62c86e86c58f655/698938fcab6d7769196b3896/avocado.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2599 og:image:height: 1462 og:image:alt: Voraciously Food Sub brand story 3/2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Scientists Are Seeking Avocado Addicts to Eat One Every Day twitter:description: Guacamole lovers, this job is for you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb62c86e86c58f655/698938fcab6d7769196b3896/avocado.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Luckily There's One Way to Eat a Free Avocado a Day for Science > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=b5820757-c174-4752-b5c4-e16c7a2c01b9&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 29, 2018 5:13 PM UTC  Avocados for use with Voraciously photographed at The Washington Post via Getty Images in Washington, DC. Avocados for use with Voraciously photographed at The Washington Post via Getty Images in Washington, DC. The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 29, 2018 5:13 PM UTC But for more than 1,000 lucky people this fall, an [Avocados](http://time.com/money/5352752/chipotle-free-guacamole-deal-national-avocado-day-2018/)\-rich diet is about to be on the menu regularly — with a hefty subsidy. Researchers at Loma Linda University, Penn State, Tufts, UCLA and Wake Forest University [are seeking](https://hatstudy.org/) about 250 interested participants each this fall to test out the commonly-believed hypothesis that nutrient-rich avocados are good for you — and, specifically, if consistent avocado consumption “impacts the amount and distribution of fat in the body,” according to the [application site](https://hatstudy.org/). Those selected to be part of the study [will be asked](https://hatstudy.org/study-requirements/) to eat an avocado a day for six months, or two a month for six months. They don’t specify how your avocado must be consumed, so just imagine all those daily doses of guacamole. (You also have to be 25 years old or older. Men should be 40 inches at the waist at least; for women, the minimum is 35 inches around the waist.) The avocado [everywhere](http://time.com/4861608/avocado-toast-cost-spending-americans-square/). But is the buttery fruit really as good for you as we have come to consider it? This study will aim to find out. Perhaps it’s an avocado a day — and not the humble apple — that will save us all. Besides being told to eat avocados, study participants get a kickback at the end of the six-month study: $300, plus of course [free avocados](https://hatstudy.org/incentives/) “either during the study or after the study completion.” So if avocados are already a budget line-item for you — or you’d like them to be — this could be the perfect side hustle. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5381756/avocado-eating-study/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5381756/avocado-eating-study/"},"headline":"Luckily There's One Way to Eat a Free Avocado a Day for Science","datePublished":"2018-08-29T17:13:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:35.077Z","description":"Guacamole lovers, this job is for you","url":"https://time.com/5381756/avocado-eating-study/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb62c86e86c58f655/698938fcab6d7769196b3896/avocado.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb62c86e86c58f655/698938fcab6d7769196b3896/avocado.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Voraciously Food Sub brand story 3/2018","caption":"Voraciously Food Sub brand story 3/2018","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images","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/5381756/avocado-eating-study/","name":"Luckily There's One Way to Eat a Free Avocado a Day for Science"}}]}] ```