Major supermarket unveils tech that will tell you whether your avocado is ripe

Shoppers will soon be able to access a new way to check if their store-bought avocados are ripe as Tesco trials a new high-tech system.

Available in five stores from this week, the machines operate like an X-ray, reading the fruit's internal state .

Holding an avocado in the machines scanner, it will tell customers either if their avocado is overipe, and ready to be smashed, or if it is less ripe and instead better for slicing or waiting to ripen.

Named the One Third Avocado Scanner after the Dutch company that invented it, the technology measures ripeness in a few seconds, aiming to help consumers pick the perfect fruit.

The company explains that the technology works by scanning through the avocado using light, detecting its internal state. The aim of the service is to avoid c