Kiwifruit can lower blood cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular diseases. It promotes digestion, prevents constipation, and removes harmful metabolites from the body.
Protecting the endothelium of blood vessels, preventing the deposition of plaque on the walls of blood vessels, preventing the occurrence of atherosclerosis, and also improving myocardial function. Regular consumption of kiwifruit can also prevent cancer and tumors, and can promote the body's detoxification.
Kiwifruit is a very good tonic, which is very rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and folic acid, belonging to the low-fat, low-calorie fruits, which are very rich in nutritional value.
Kiwifruit, also known as fox peach, vine pear, goat peach, wood, hairy wood fruit, kiwi fruit, hemp vine fruit, etc., the fruit shape is generally oval, the appearance of the greenish-brown, the skin covered with dense tomentum, inedible, and inside the bright green pulp and a row of black seeds.
Because the macaque monkey likes to eat, so the name kiwifruit; there are also said to be because of the skin covered with hair, looks like a macaque and named, is a kind of tender quality, nutritious, delicious flavor of the fruit.
The world kiwifruit originated in Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, in the town of Wuduhe. on November 6, 2008, at the International Kiwifruit Conference held in New Zealand, more than 200 experts from 19 countries in the world unanimously recognized that: China is the center of origin of the kiwifruit, and that the world kiwifruit originated in Wuduhe Town, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province.
The kiwifruit has a soft texture and a sweet and sour taste. The flavor has been described as a mixture of strawberry, banana and pineapple. In addition to containing organic substances such as kiwifruit alkaloids, protein hydrolyzing enzymes, tannin pectin and sugars, as well as trace elements such as calcium, potassium, selenium, zinc, germanium and 17 kinds of amino acids needed by the human body, kiwifruit is also rich in vitamin C, glucosinolate, fructose, citric acid, malic acid and fat.
Kiwifruit is a dioecious large deciduous woody vine. Male plants are hairy and have small leaves, and male flowers appear earlier than female flowers; female plants are less hairy or hairless, and have larger flowers and leaves than males. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruit ripens from August to October.