You must also have asked yourselves, “Why is everyone obsessed with Kiwi fruit these days?”

To find the answers, today we will discuss about the top 10 facts about kiwi fruit that you probably didn’t know about.

Kiwifruit is native to central and eastern China. The first recorded description of the kiwifruit dates to 12th century China during the Song dynasty.

As it was usually collected from the wild and consumed for medicinal purposes, the plant was rarely cultivated or bred in china.

According to an epic story, Kiwi fruit was only at the turn of the 20th Century, in 1904, that it arrived on New Zealand shores when New Zealand school principal Isabel Fraser brought some kiwifruit seeds back from her travels from china.

In China it was called as yang tao. When it was firstly introduced in New Zealand, it was nicknamed as “Chinese Gooseberries”.

Later in 1959, thanks to its sweet-tart flavor and green colour it was renamed as “kiwi” after New Zealand’s national bird, as both are small, brown, and fuzzy.

Did you know just how nutritious the kiwifruit is?

Not only does it contain 17 essential vitamins and minerals (more than almost all common fruits), but it also is a source of fibre and potassium and has exceptionally high levels of vitamin C.

Kiwifruit seed oil contains on average 62% alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid.

Kiwi fruit is in season at different times of the year depending on the hemisphere in which it is grown.

• In the Northern Hemisphere, Kiwi fruit begins to ripen and is harvested from late October to early November.
• The peak season for Northern Hemisphere kiwi fruit is during the winter months, from November through February.

• In the Southern Hemisphere starts to ripen and is harvested from late March to early April.

• The peak season for Southern Hemisphere kiwi fruit is during the summer and early fall months, from April through September.

Kiwifruit is available at all the supermarkets and grocery stores near you. When selecting kiwis, you should remember the below points.

• Those with the sweetest flavour will yield to the gentle pressure applied while holding them between your thumb and forefinger.
• If they are too firm, they aren’t quite ripe and haven’t reached their peak of sweetness.
• You should avoid those that are very soft, shrivelled or have bruised or damp spots.

Before eating, people also have another question. i.e. how to cut kiwi fruit? And below is your answer:

Cut in half, slices, wedges, peel the skin off or scoop the fruit with spoon.

Now, There are many ways to eat a kiwi fruit, including:

• Cut and scoop: Cut the kiwi in half and use a spoon to scoop out the flesh.
• Peel and slice: Use a knife or vegetable peeler to remove the skin, then slice the kiwi into pieces.
• Bite into it: You can bite into a kiwi like you would an apple or peach.
• Make Smoothie: You can throw the whole kiwi into a blender.
• Fruit Salad: You can add kiwi slices to a fruit salad with other fresh fruit.

According to experts, Dogs don’t have the same nutritional requirements as humans, so feeding Kiwi Fruit to dogs does not benefit them. However, this doesn’t mean that dogs can’t eat Kiwi.

To avoid a hazardous situation like choking, we should always cut the kiwi into small pieces or slices and feed them a little bit at a time.

Always remember that feeding your dog kiwi should be considered a treat and not a substitute for more nutritious foods for dogs.

Kiwifruit has a lot of good stuff like natural sugar, fibre, and a little protein.

The fibre in kiwifruit helps slow down the absorption of sugar in body.

This means kiwifruit doesn’t make your blood sugar rise too fast, so it’s a good fruit for people with diabetes.

Plus, it’s mostly water, so eating 100g of kiwifruit has the same sugar effect as just 5g (one teaspoon) of glucose.

That’s it for this post.

Please let me know if I missed any facts about Kiwi Fruit.

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