Avocados May Be Healthy, but Nearly 9,000 People Ended Up in Hospital Because of it Last Year

8,900 people in the U.S. – that’s 24 every day – end up in the emergency room because they wanted to eat some delicious avocado, according to an analysis done by Insider. Most of them are women between the ages of 20 and 40 and the injuries typically happen to their hands as they were cutting the avocados.

We know that millennials love avocados, but we definitely didn’t know that so many people end up hurting themselves trying to make a delicious meal! The analysis reported to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s national injury database and made a calculation based on the number of hospitals included in the national database. “Nearly all of those visits were due to lacerations and injuries to hands and fingers, caused while cutting avocados — although there was at least one instance of someone slipping off of a stool while picking avocados as well,” Insider writes.

What can you do to avoid becoming a part of this painful statistic? Definitely avoid using a knife to remove the pit from an avocado and do it with a spoon instead!