Beijing, October 12 (CCTV) According to the Voice of China News Hyperlink of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, according to the "China Food Ingredient List", the vitamin C content per 100 grams of kiwifruit is 62 mg.
Some people said that the kiwi fruit was not convinced.
Kiwifruit and kiwifruit, if not exactly the same, are unlikely to be unrelated.
In fact, they are all the same. Moreover, it is native to our country.
So, how did kiwifruit go from kiwifruit to kiwifruit?
Common green meat kiwi fruit (source: Chinese Academy of Sciences)
How does kiwi fruit get to New Zealand?
Shi Jun, a member of the Science Communication Working Committee of the Botanical Society of China and a popular science author, introduced that kiwi fruit is a large genus, with 54 species in the world and 52 species in China. Among them, the Chinese kiwi fruit is our usual sense of kiwifruit. Including Kiwifruit from New Zealand, also Chinese kiwifruit.
How was kiwi fruit introduced to New Zealand and why was it transformed into a kiwi fruit?
Shi Jun introduced that in 1904, Isabel, a New Zealand female teacher, went to China to visit her sister, and when she returned to China, she took a bag of kiwi seeds and commissioned others to plant them in New Zealand. Three seedlings were successfully produced in this packet of seeds, and later kiwi fruit was continuously selected and cultivated by New Zealanders, and eventually developed into a young and successful fruit, kiwifruit.
New Zealand kiwifruit
In fact, before Isabel got the seeds, plant hunters had already sent the seeds to the Americas and Europe and cultivated them. However, the kiwi plants are divided into male and female, two of the three kiwi trees obtained by Isabel are male and female, and the plants that are taken to the Americas and Europe are all males, and they cannot successfully bear fruit.
How did kiwi fruit change its name to kiwifruit?
After the introduction of New Zealand, kiwifruit was first called "Yichang gooseberry" translated as "Yichang gooseberry" or "Chinese gooseberry". But the name "gooseberry" sounds a bit sour, which makes kiwi fruit sales in New Zealand not ideal for a while. Shi Jun introduced that in order to make the kiwi fruit sell better, the fruit seller wanted to take a name that was both localized and eye-catching, so he borrowed the name of New Zealand's national bird "Kiwi Bird" and called it "kiwi fruit", which is the origin of the name of kiwifruit.
But in fact, the kiwi "root" is in China.
Which wild kiwi fruit is a second-class protected plant in China?
Kiwi is a large genus, with 54 species worldwide and 52 in China. Shi Jun pointed out that in addition to the germplasm resources of red heart kiwi fruit that New Zealand does not have, the wild kiwi fruit resources are also extremely rich. In the "List of Wild Plants under National Key Protection", soft jujube kiwifruit, Chinese kiwifruit and so on are among them.
(Source: Website of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration)
Shi Jun said that the rich variety of fruits is actually one of the biggest gifts to human beings in the work of biodiversity conservation: "There are still many species of great significance hidden in the treasure house of biodiversity, which may not be known to us today." In the future, as research deepens, the treasure trove may be opened. Perhaps the ordinary wildflowers and wild fruits will become valuable biological resources that affect the survival and development of human beings, bringing us various surprises. ”
Diversity of kiwi pulp (Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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