What is the nutritional value of kiwifruit? What are the benefits of eating kiwifruit?

The kiwifruit is a small "mini" fruit with a smooth and hairless surface and small seeds. It is very suitable for fresh eating and processing into whole fruit canned food, preserved fruit and other foods. The vitamin C content is dozens of times that of other fruits, making it an excellent raw material for developing functional health foods. The kiwifruit can be used as an ornamental tree species and a fruit tree. The fruit can be used as medicine, and it has many uses. The kiwifruit is also a tonic product. The nutrients in it can significantly improve the body's activity, promote metabolism, and coordinate body functions. Let's learn more about it.

Contents of this article

1. What is Actinidia arguta?

2. What is the nutritional value of kiwifruit?

3. What are the benefits of eating kiwi fruit?

4. What should you pay attention to when eating soft-fleshed kiwifruit?

What is Actinidia arguta?

Small kiwifruit is called soft-jujube kiwifruit. Soft-jujube kiwifruit is a large deciduous vine, 7 to 15 cm long, with gray-brown branches every other year, about 4 mm in diameter, clean and hairless or part of the epidermis is dirty gray dandruff-like, lenticels oblong to short strips, inconspicuous to very inconspicuous, pith white to light brown, lamellar. Leaves are membranous or papery, ovate, oblong, broadly ovate to nearly circular, 6 to 12 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, with sharp and short tips at the top, rounded to shallowly cordate at the base, equal or slightly unequal sides, with dense sharp serrations on the margins, dark green on the ventral side, hairless, green on the dorsal side, with beards on the axils of the lateral veins or a small amount of curly soft hairs on both sides of the midrib and the lower part of the lateral veins, some of which are more commonly covered with curly soft hairs, and the transverse veins and reticular veinlets are thin, underdeveloped, visible or invisible. The fruit is spherical to columnar-oblong, 2 to 3 cm long, with a beak or an inconspicuous beak, glabrous, spotless, without persistent sepals, and green-yellow or purple-red when ripe.

What is the nutritional value of kiwi fruit?

1. The skin of soft-fleshed kiwifruit is rich in pectin, which can effectively reduce the body's cholesterol content, and its nutritional value is about 80% of that of kiwifruit. Therefore, when eating soft-fleshed kiwifruit, you often need to be careful not to peel it.

2. The reason why the soft-fleshed kiwifruit tastes sweet and sour is that the sugar and acid content of the soft-fleshed kiwifruit is relatively high, and the pulp is also rich in vitamins, including vitamin A, vitamin C, etc. It has always been known as a "super fruit".

3. The content of potassium, magnesium and trace elements in the soft-fleshed kiwifruit is high. The supplementation of these trace elements can greatly improve human immunity.

4. Soft-fleshed kiwifruit is rich in dietary fiber and antioxidants, which can clear away heat and reduce internal heat. Soft-fleshed kiwifruit is the best choice for friends who suffer from internal heat.

What are the benefits of eating kiwi fruit?

1. Stabilize emotions: Actinidia arguta can regulate hormones and nerve conduction effects within cells, and can effectively help patients with depression stabilize their emotions and calm their moods. The natural inositol it contains can help brain activity and further promote the basic guarantee of this emotion-stabilizing effect.

2. Anti-cancer and anti-tumor: Soft-fleshed kiwifruit contains a substance called anti-mutagenic glutathione, which is beneficial in inhibiting cancer-inducing gene mutations, and has a certain inhibitory effect on liver cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer and other types of cancer cell lesions.

3. Strengthen physical fitness: Soft-fleshed kiwifruit is also a nourishing and strengthening product. The nutrients in it can significantly improve body activity, promote metabolism, coordinate body functions, block carcinogens, strengthen physical fitness, delay aging, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

What should I pay attention to when eating kiwi fruit?

We should pay attention to the taboos of kiwi fruit and what foods it cannot be eaten with. Do not eat kiwi fruit with milk, crabs, carrots, animal liver, cucumbers, etc., so as not to cause physical discomfort. Since kiwi fruit is a cold food, it should be eaten appropriately during menstruation and pregnancy. Do not eat too much. Expectant mothers with threatened miscarriage should pay more attention to eating less of this kind of cold food. After eating pickled vegetables such as sauerkraut, it is recommended that you eat kiwi fruit. Why is this? Because after pickling, the vitamin C in the sauerkraut has been lost, while the vitamin C content of kiwi fruit is rich. One kiwi fruit can almost meet the vitamin C required by the human body for a day, so it is a good choice!