20 Interesting Facts About Healthy Fruit Kiwi

"Chinese gooseberry" is a hairy brown fruit with green flesh inside, dotted in the middle with black small grains. Of course, it's a kiwi! What do you know about kiwi? We will tell you 20 interesting facts about him, and if you have something to add, be sure to leave your comment under this post!

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Facts About Healthy Fruit Kiwi

1. Despite its large size and hairy skin, the kiwi is a berry.
2. Kiwi berries were originally discovered in northern China, in the Yangtze River Valley. Missionaries brought them to other countries.
3. In China, in the homeland of the kiwi, it is called "monkey peach", because of the hairy skin that covers it.
4. Europeans called kiwi the Chinese gooseberry, although they are not actually related. Kiwi is a vine and gooseberry is a bush.
5. Today the Chinese gooseberry is called kiwi all over the world, and the name given to it by the New Zealanders - kiwifruit - is a patented trademark of this country.
6. Kiwi fruit is about the size of a chicken egg and weighs about 125 grams. It has a soft, juicy emerald green flesh containing small black edible seeds.
7. There is an opinion that, in fact, kiwi is an artificially bred fruit, the ancestor of which is the gooseberry, and until the middle of the last century it did not exist at all. But this is not the case. Kiwi existed in the form in which we see it now, originally.
8. This myth appeared because in the middle of the 20th century it was renamed by the New Zealanders (the kiwi was brought to New Zealand from China) from the "Chinese gooseberry" to "kiwifruit" in order not to pay huge fees for its export to the USA (due to the Cold War).
9. The kiwi has become a symbol of New Zealand, as well as its namesake - the kiwi bird, after which it, in fact, was named. Its brown feathers are more like the fur of a mammal or … like the hairy skin of a "Chinese gooseberry".
10. Currently, China wants to develop new varieties of kiwi, the flesh of which will be red.
11. Kiwi vines live in the water during the summer. Each vine consumes about 5 liters of water per day during the growing season.
12. From September to November, the kiwi vine bears oval brownish fruits.
13. These berries do not like and do not eat insect pests, so the yield of kiwi is always very high.
14. Kiwi contains much more vitamin C compared to citrus fruits such as lemons and oranges.
15. These berries do not like insect pests, so usually, their yield is very high.
16. Kiwi flesh resembles strawberry and sapodilla in texture. The taste is something between strawberry and pineapple.
17. In the early 20th century, kiwi seeds were brought by missionaries to New Zealand, where they took root. New Zealand began to spread these, like sweet red pepper and lemon, rich in vitamin C, fruits around the world.
18. They are currently grown in Europe and California (USA).
19. The Gold Kiwifruit is a hybrid grown by the Agricultural Research Department in New Zealand.
20. This variety is characterized by a fuzzy bronze skin, a speckled "cap" at one end, and a golden yellow flesh, which is less tart than regular kiwi and has a more tropical flavor. This variety is considered to be more valuable in the market than the regular green kiwi fruit.