What exactly is the difference between 30 kiwifruit and 15 kiwi?

Many people have eaten or seen kiwi fruit and kiwifruit in their lives, and they should not be unfamiliar with these two fruits with different names but almost the same shape and appearance, especially in terms of price.

Usually in supermarkets or online stores, Chinese kiwifruit and New Zealand kiwifruit will be set at different prices, such as the price of kiwifruit is about 15 yuan a catty, while the price of kiwifruit reaches about 30 yuan a catty, the difference is more than doubled.

Seeing this, we can't help but wonder why there is such a clear price difference between these two fruits, which are almost identical in appearance and shape? Are they the same fruit?

Kiwifruit and kiwi revealed their origins

As we all know, China is an important birthplace of kiwifruit, from a historical point of view, as early as 700 AD ago, China has a written record of "kiwi", and later Li Shizhen also commented on kiwi and said: "Its shape is like a pear, its color is like a peach, and macaques like to eat it." From the perspective of resource distribution, 52 of the 54 wild kiwifruit species found in the world are distributed in China, and it can be said that China's kiwifruit is not only rich in germplasm resources, but also has a long history. However, the New Zealand kiwifruit we see in the market today is not only very similar to Chinese kiwi in appearance and shape, but also not much different in taste and taste from kiwi, and we may have an idea: could they be the same fruit? Congratulations on your correct answer, New Zealand kiwifruit and Chinese kiwi are the same fruit themselves, both belong to the kiwi family Kiwi family of perennial lianas. The reason why they have different names is actually a little story behind them. The story can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty in 1904, when Isabel, a female teacher from New Zealand, came to Yichang, Hubei Province to visit her sister, and met Wilson, a botanist who was collecting plant resources in China, and Isabel was very interested in the kiwifruit Wilson collected, so she brought some seeds back to New Zealand after the visit. These seeds were initially cultivated sporadically on New Zealand farms, and were later valued by New Zealand farmers and breeders as having great food and economic value, so they invested a lot of money in artificial domestication. After decades of hard work, New Zealand has finally successfully domesticated wild kiwifruit into a nutrient-rich, sweet and sour commercial fruit represented by Hayward. In order to maximize the selling price and make huge economic profits, New Zealand growers observed that kiwifruit had similar fine hairs and colors to New Zealand's national bird, kiwi, so they renamed kiwi fruit, Chinese translated as kiwifruit. Zespri Zespri was also established to manage the cultivation and sale of kiwifruit in New Zealand. So far, kiwifruit has become an internationally famous fruit with the name of New Zealand's national bird and excellent fruit quality. So, at this moment, everyone understands that although the New Zealand kiwifruit is the leader in the fruit world, it is actually a Chinese kiwi, but it was artificially taken out of China and then changed its name to a kiwi. If when buying fruit, the boss tells you that kiwifruit is not kiwi, so it is more expensive, please don't be deceived.

Why are kiwi so expensive?

Since kiwifruit and kiwifruit are the same origin and the same fruit, why is the price difference so big? First of all, New Zealand began to cultivate and improve kiwifruit in 1904, and large-scale commodity production was formed around 1940, while China was experiencing many factors such as the replacement of old and new society, government changes, years of war and the limitations of the times, and did not begin to pay attention to the kiwifruit industry until 1978. Because Chinese kiwifruit started late and was not as competitive as New Zealand, it failed to dominate the kiwifruit market. Secondly, although kiwifruit and kiwi belong to the same fruit, New Zealand kiwifruit has advantages in quality. The reason is that Zespri Zespri Kiwifruit Company attaches great importance to scientific research investment, and will hand over a large amount of scientific research funds to third-party breeding institutions every year for kiwifruit breeding improvement, and has also set up a special scientific research department to improve the scientific and technological content of all aspects of industrial development. In addition, the New Zealand government also attaches great importance to the development of the kiwifruit industry, not only increasing the supporting support of scientific researchers, but also regularly funding the kiwifruit industry for basic research. In China, the lack of sufficient scientific research support and advanced cultivation technology in the early stage, and the lack of in-depth understanding of kiwifruit, which also led to a slight deficiency in the quality of Chinese kiwifruit compared with New Zealand kiwifruit. Finally, kiwifruit is good at building brand advantages and increasing added value. In order to promote the development of the kiwifruit industry, New Zealand stipulates that all growers must abandon their own brands and collectively form a unified kiwifruit brand: Zespri. All kiwifruit planting, packaging, storage, transportation and distribution are managed under the unified responsibility of Kiwifruit International Marketing New Zealand. It is precisely because of the construction of a unified, efficient and strict quality control support system that kiwifruit has become a fruit that attracts the attention of the world. On the contrary, China's current brand building is still immature, the variety is uneven, there is a lack of brands that can carry the banner in the international market, and there is no clear management body, many brands are fighting their own battles, and the internal friction is serious, so New Zealand Kiwifruit can repeatedly win the first place.

The Chinese kiwi that came after the newcomer

However, although New Zealand's kiwifruit industry is relatively mature, in recent years, New Zealand's kiwifruit is no longer the only one, on the contrary, China's kiwifruit industry has begun to accumulate and catch up, and has created a number of breakthroughs in the world of China's kiwifruit industry. For example, since 1978, Wuhan Botanical Garden has preserved more than 1,400 kiwifruit resources over 45 years, and has cultivated 45 varieties with different characteristics, which has greatly enriched the resources of kiwifruit varieties in the mainland. In addition, varieties such as Golden Peach, Jinyan, Donghong and Zhongqi No. 2, which have been cultivated by mainland scientists for more than ten years, have also been loved by the general public and have become the main cultivars in China. Not only that, these varieties are favored by foreign consumers, go abroad, and are introduced and cultivated by Italy and other countries. At the same time, China also relies on abundant kiwifruit resources to vigorously cultivate kiwifruit with different flesh colors, such as the unique red flesh kiwifruit varieties "East Red" and "Red Yang". Cutting the red flesh kiwi horizontally with a knife, we can clearly see that the heart of the fruit is radial red, while the flesh of other parts is green or yellow, which is very rich in color, and the appearance exceeds the previous kiwifruit. What we are proud of is that only countries such as China, New Zealand and Chile have been able to cultivate these kiwifruit varieties with rich flesh in the world, due to the lack of germplasm resources, and have not yet been able to cultivate independently, and can only be imported and planted from China. It is precisely because of the unremitting efforts of Chinese agricultural science and technology workers, China's kiwifruit industry has ushered in a new world, from the previous Chinese farmers can only choose to plant New Zealand cultivated varieties "Hayward", to now a variety of Chinese kiwifruit varieties to choose to plant, this change not only allows farmers to have more planting options, but also allows us as ordinary people to have the opportunity to taste many different characteristics and delicious kiwifruit. Today, Chinese kiwifruit seems to have planted wings, swaying up to 90,000 li, planting area has accounted for more than 60% of the world, planting output has surpassed New Zealand, accounting for 50.5% of the world, gradually regaining the international kiwifruit discourse power, greatly promoting the development of China's kiwifruit industry.

How to pick kiwi correctly?

With the development of agricultural science and technology in China, there are more and more types of kiwi fruit to choose from, but in the face of the variety of kiwi fruits on the market, how can we choose a delicious and durable kiwi? In fact, the method is very simple, just keep in mind the hardness of one outside, two hairs and three hairs. 1. Look at the appearance: Kiwi should choose fruits with full body shape, uniform color, no spots and no scars on the appearance, and try to choose fruits with dark yellow-brown peels, so that the taste will be sweeter. 2. Look at the flutus: Due to the different varieties, the fluff of the kiwi skin will also be different, and according to the type of fluff , you can also pick out different flavors of kiwifruit. Usually, the peel has obvious hard bristles or rough kiwi green meat series, the taste will be a little sour, the smooth skin of Chinese kiwi red heart and yellow meat series, the taste will be a little sweeter. 3. Look at the hardness: choose the overall harder kiwi fruit, gently pinch it with your hands, will not feel the whole or part soft, otherwise it may be a kiwi fruit stored by the store for too long, consumers are not resistant to storage after buying. Seeing this, I believe that many friends have an understanding of kiwi and kiwifruit, curious friends order these two fruits to taste and compare in person, I believe that domestic kiwifruit is by no means worse than kiwifruit.