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  • From: "David Consolvo" <fruitopia@firstva.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Is kiwifruit the healthiest fruit?
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:50:26 -0400

In 1988 I researched the scientific literature on kiwifruit nutrition for
Massey
University in New Zealand, and wrote a report comparing it to other fruits.
This
was ultimately for the then-marketing behemoth of kiwifruit, the New Zealand
Kiwifruit Authority. Bottom line: kiwifruit (meaning the standard
commercial
variety, Hayward) are quite high in vitamin C and vitamin E. They have more
C
than citrus fruits, though not as much as some berries, in which everything
seems
more concentrated. The E in kiwifruit may or may not be very available for
human
nutrition, as it is concentrated in the seeds. I don't know if the seeds get
digested
in human intestines.
~David Consolvo, MD
Hungrytown, Virginia


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Dr.O'Barr" <Topgun@Otelco.net>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:56:18 -0500

>Supposed to have at least 10 times the vit C that an orange has.
>Topgun
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rob hamilton
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Is kiwifruit the healthiest fruit?
>
>
> I think the trouble with lot of these types of facts like the oldest
> fruits and the
healthiest fruit and other type of record setting statistics is that they are
very
temporal and subjected to current study. There are number of fruits that are
even
on Fruitipedia's website that may not have had the kind of critical study and
scrutiny that a number of these common fruits have to determine nutrition.
The
dry climate of the middle east tends to preserve evidence that may be lost in
areas
like in Southern Asia. I read Bananas were one of the oldest cultivated
fruits, but in
areas of monsoons, or high humidity, can we really know? This in fact seems
to go
against (indirectly) what your website might be promoting - which is more
investigation in the lesser know fruits. By no means am I saying that a list
as this
should not be made or used in promoting it, though I would always phrase it
in a
way that invited further investigation into other fruits. I know I am talk
about an
area I know little about, but I thought it may be worth thinking about.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Robert
>
> "Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" <parmarch_mnd@dataone.in> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I read in a newspaper supplement yesterday that kiwifruit was the
> healthiest
among all fruits. The information is based upon a comparative study of 27
fruits
carried at the Rutgers University.
>
> What do you people think about this statement.
>
> Do we have some list members from Rutgers University who could help me
> to
get the names of the 27 fruits studied by them.
>
> Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
> www.fruitipedia.com
>
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