The green color of kiwifruit flesh is due to the presence of chlorophyll, which is one of the very few fruits that contain chlorophyll when ripe.

The kiwifruit is very rich in nutrients, rich in vitamin C, gluconic acid, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, fat and trace elements (calcium, potassium, selenium, zinc, germanium, etc.).

Characteristics of kiwifruit

The kiwifruit's fruit is generally ellipsoid in shape, generally yellowish brown in early appearance, and usually reddish brown when ripe, with a densely tomentose skin and a flesh that is usually bright green, with rows of black or red seeds; the kiwifruit's leaves are papery, stipule-less, and obliquely ovate to obovate or broadly ovate to suborbicular. ; branches are brown, pilose, pith white, lamellate.