You can eat Xuxiang kiwis if they are hard because they are already ripe, but the texture is not as good as the soft ones.

The natural law of kiwi fruit itself is that it undergoes a ripening process. If you eat it hard, it will be sour. It will become sweet only after it is softened, so it is not recommended to eat it hard. Because kiwi fruits are hard as long as they are not picked off the tree. In the process of kiwi fruit from hardness to ripening, the kiwi fruit itself will gradually secrete the sweetness of kiwi fruit internally, and the kiwi fruit activates sweet cells from acid cells. Therefore, Xuxiang kiwi fruit needs to be ripened to have a delicious taste.

Xuxiang kiwi fruit is a variety selected and cultivated by the orchard in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province in 1975 from the delicious kiwi fruit seedlings introduced from the Beijing Botanical Garden. Xuxiang kiwifruit has strong adaptability and grows normally under alkaline conditions along the coast and Huanghuai Plain. It begins to bear fruit early, has excellent quality, and is sweet and fragrant. It passed the appraisal in 1990 and won the Excellent Variety Award at the China Kiwi Fruit Base Variety Appraisal Meeting in 1992. It has been introduced and cultivated in many places so far.