The kiwifruit is generally elliptical in shape, yellow-brown in early appearance, reddish-brown when ripe, with a dense downy skin and edible flesh, which is bright green and has rows of black or red seeds. Because the macaque likes to eat, so the name kiwifruit, there are also said to be because the skin covered with hair, looks like a macaque and named, is a kind of tender quality, rich in nutrients, flavorful and delicious fruit.
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 kiwi alkaloids, protein hydrolyzing enzymes, tannin pectin and sugars, as well as trace elements such as calcium, potassium, selenium, zinc, germanium and 17 amino acids required by the human body, kiwifruit is also rich in vitamin C, glucosinolate, fructose, citric acid, malic acid and fat.
Chinese name
Kiwi fruit
Foreign name
Kiwi fruit
Alias
Kiwi fruit, Fox Peach, Vine Pear, Monkey Pear, Yangtang Pear
Latin name
Actinidia Chinensis
Diomorphism
Actinidia Chinensis
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Introduction
The kiwifruit is native to southern China, and was named kiwifruit because macaques like to eat the fruit. After it was introduced to New Zealand, it was widely cultivated, and people named the kiwi after New Zealand's national bird, the kiwi bird, and called it "kiwi fruit", which is one of New Zealand's most prestigious fruits. [2]
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Botanical history
Source of the scientific name
The kiwifruit was mentioned in the Book of Songs as early as the pre-Qin Dynasty, which read: "There is a kiwifruit in the sermon. the ancient name of kiwifruit), intertwining its branches." Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also depicts the kiwi's shape and color: "Its shape is like a pear, its color is like a peach, and the macaques like to eat, so there are all the names."
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Research history
The kiwifruit, native to China, was originally a wild fruit until the early 1900s, when a New Zealand schoolteacher brought it back to her home country from the Wudu River in Yiling District of Yichang City, Hubei Province, where it evolved into the fruit known as the kiwifruit. The development process from wild to cultivation is quite legendary.
The kiwifruit, commonly known as Yangtao, Maotao, Shan Yangtao, Mao Pear Peach, etc., is an ancient wild vine fruit tree native to China. Jiaokeng Village in Huangyan District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, still preserves kiwifruit plants that were transplanted from the mountains and planted in the fields more than 200 years ago.
There are many different kinds of plants called kiwifruit throughout China, and according to botanists' surveys, there are more than 52 species of the genus kiwifruit distributed throughout the country, many of which are edible. The kiwifruit on the fruit market today refers mainly to the Chinese kiwifruit, as well as the delicious kiwifruit, which was identified as a new species by one of its variants in 1984. Their wild species are widely distributed, with Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan in the north, Liangguang and Fujian in the south, Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan in the southwest, as well as the provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin, with the most numerous, especially in Yiling District's Wudu River.
Kiwifruit by the ancients foraging history is very long, in addition to poetry, in the "Er Ya - interpretation of grass" also has carambola Chu, the famous East Jin Dynasty naturalist Guo Pu named it sheep peach. People in some places in Hubei and east Sichuan still call kiwifruit sheep peach.
The name kiwifruit probably did not appear until the Tang Dynasty. Tang "Materia Medica Gleaner" contains: "kiwifruit taste salty and warm non-toxic, can be used for medicinal purposes, the main treatment of bone and joints wind, paralysis, paralysis, white hair, hemorrhoids, and so on." This indicates that kiwifruit was already planted in the courtyard at least 1,200 years ago in China. In addition to being eaten as a wild fruit, kiwifruit was cultivated as an ornamental flower in gardens during the Tang Dynasty because of its beautiful leaves and flowers. The Tang Dynasty poet Cen Sen's poem "Staying at Taibai Dongxi Li Laoshe Sends to My Brother and Nephew" contains the sentence "On the well rail in the courtyard, there is a rack of kiwifruit", which is a very vivid description of how people used kiwifruit to beautify their homes at that time. In the same period, the record of "Gleanings from the Materia Medica" shows that kiwifruit had already been used as medicine at that time. Well, the simple introduction did not escape, in fact, or forever value is still very high