What's the difference between kiwifruit and kiwifruit? Is it the same fruit?

It's kind of fruit. Kiwifruit is an artificially cultivated kiwifruit variety, which is synonymous with kiwifruit because of its wide use. Kiwi is a specialty of New Zealand. In fact, its ancestral home is in China, formerly known as "Kiwi". Kiwifruit originated in China and was originally a wild fruit. It was not until the early 20th century that a New Zealand female teacher brought it back to China from Wudu River in Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, that it developed into a kind of fruit called kiwifruit. The development process from wild to cultivated is quite legendary.

Kiwi and kiwifruit are the same kind of fruit, and it is only because of their cultivation and improvement in New Zealand that they have gained international reputation. As for why it is called kiwi, it looks like kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand.

Kiwi is not only rich in vitamins C, A, E, potassium, magnesium and cellulose, but also contains rare nutrients in other fruits-folic acid, carotene, calcium, lutein, amino acids and natural inositol, so it is called "the source of nutritional vitality" by nutritionists. According to analysis, every 100g of fresh exotic pulp contains 100 to 300 mg (even more than 400 mg) of vitamin C, which is 20 to 80 times higher than that of apples and 5 to10 times higher than that of oranges.

Kiwifruit is soft, sweet and sour. This taste is described as a mixture of strawberries, bananas and pineapples. In addition to organic substances such as actinidine, proteolytic enzyme, tannin pectin and sugar, trace elements such as calcium, potassium, selenium, zinc and germanium, and 17 amino acids needed by human body, kiwifruit is also rich in vitamin C, grape acid, fructose, citric acid, malic acid and fat.

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Because the two varieties are very close, they can be said to be brother fruits, so the appearance and color are very similar. But kiwifruit is uniform in size and shape, and the fluff on the surface layer is evenly distributed, almost in the same direction, which looks very delicate. There is even a kiwi fruit without hair.

However, kiwifruit is generally larger than kiwifruit (this is because kiwifruit needs swelling agent in the early stage of production and planting in China). In addition, kiwifruit is irregular in size and shape, uneven in fluff distribution, and rough in appearance and touch.

The imported kiwifruit has a hard and uniform surface fur and uniform size, and the peel has three colors: yellow, medium and blue, while the domestic Michelia peach peel is soft and uneven. Kiwifruit tastes good when it is hard, but it tastes good when it is ripe. There is no difference in nutrients, but the content of various nutrients in kiwifruit is slightly higher.

The name Kiwifruit probably came into being in the Tang Dynasty. Tang's Compendium of Materia Medica states: "Kiwifruit is salty, warm and nontoxic, and can be used as medicine. Mainly used to treat joint pain, paralysis, perennial gray hair, hemorrhoids and so on. At least 1200 years ago, China had planted kiwifruit in the courtyard.

Kiwifruit was not only eaten as wild fruit, but also cultivated as an ornamental flower in the courtyard because of its beautiful leaves and flowers in the Tang Dynasty. Cen Can, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Li Laoshe sent his brother and nephew to stay in Taibai Dongxi", which contained the phrase "There is a kiwifruit on the atrium well", vividly describing the scene when people used kiwifruit to beautify their homes at that time. At the same time, the records in Notes on Materia Medica show that it was used as medicine at that time.

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