Avocado-cutting injuries cost ACC almost $70,000 last year and figures show the number of people slicing themselves while trying to prepare the fruit has increased over the past three years.
As the popularity of avocados has increased, so too has "avocado hand" - stabbed or slashed hands from trying to cut the fruit.
Last year ACC received 162 claims for injuries involving avocados, up from 137 in 2015 and 118 in 2014.
The cost of those claims to date has risen accordingly. Last year ACC paid out $68,589 and in 2014 the figure was $54,945.
An ACC spokesman said the figures were collated by searching for the word avocado in the "what you were doing" section of claim forms but, because the level of detail provided could vary greatly, the data could not be presented as definitive.
