Avocado (Hass)
88.1 mm (3.469 in)
Fruit length, stem to tip
A Hass avocado, the bumpy dark one in most shops. About 8.8 cm long.
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How big is that?
88.1 mm is 12 times a grain of rice and 30% of an A4 sheet.
Avocado is the 9th smallest of the 31 Kitchen Table objects, and the 53rd smallest of the 172 objects across all five SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: Credit card (ID-1 size) (Classic), 85.6 mm and Golf hole (Classic), 10.8 cm across.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Avocado in orange beside the Kitchen Table objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Avocado |
|---|---|---|
| Hen's egg (Large)A large chicken egg, measured along its long axis. | 55 mm tall | 62% of the size |
| OrangeA sweet orange, the most widely grown citrus fruit. | 80 mm across | 91% of the size |
| Avocado (Hass) | 88.1 mm long | – |
| Coffee mug (12 oz)A standard 12-ounce mug, measured on a Fiesta Java mug. | 92.1 mm tall | about the same |
| LemonA lemon, measured tip to tip. | 95 mm long | 1.1× bigger |
In other units
| Millimetres | 88.1 |
|---|---|
| Centimetres | 8.81 |
| Metres | 0.0881 |
| Inches | 3.469 |
| Feet | 0.289 |
How it's measured
Fruit length, stem to tip. Midpoint of the mean lengths at two orchards, 85.0 and 91.2 mm (Mokria et al. 2022).
The source gives a range, so this is the middle of it.
Sources
- iopscience.iop.org: Environ. Res. Commun. 4:075013, Table 3: Hass 85.0 mm (Jewe) and 91.2 mm (Upper Gana).
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
Avocado is one of the objects in Kitchen Table, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.