More Vitamin C Than Oranges!!
By cupoftea
@cupoftea (714)
United States
March 4, 2008 12:27pm CST
I was watching this show called Fun Food Frenzey with my daughter, it's a pretty cool show. It teaches good eating habits and gives out some pretty cool recipies for kids and grown upos will like them too. Well anyway's I found out that Kiwi fruits have more vitamin C in them than an orange. I thought that was a good thing to know.
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@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
4 Mar 08
Hi cupoftea,
Oranges are nice and easy to grow, and are generally readily available in most places.
They are nice wholesome fruit, and they do have some vitamin C in them.
But there are an awful lot of other fruits that have way, way more vitamin C in them than oranges.
Here's the inside guff on the topic - up untl just recently, the two fruits that supposedly had the highest vitamin C content of any fruit were the Acerola Cherry (it grows as a big bush, maybe 10 or 12 feet high) and the Rose Hip. The Rose Hip, by the way, is what is left after the petals fall off a rose. Who doesn't have a couple of rose bushes in their garden? If you're looking for Vitamin C, then don't let those Rose Hips go to waste!
BUT recently there have been a few more fruits discovered that have even more vitamin C in them than Acerola Cherries or Rose Hips. One that I know of is the Kakadu Plum, which comes from a rather large tree that grows in the northern tropics of Australia. There are a couple more mega-C fruits from that area too, and there are doubtless heaps of others around the world that no-one has woken up to yet.
Kiwi fruit are very tasty, and do have a useful amount of vitamin C in them. But there are heaps of other fruits with way more. Even the humble Rose Hip, believe it or not.
@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
6 Mar 08
Hi again,
I'm not sure that too many people would eat Rosehips straight off the bush, but they are used to make a nice herbal tea (that's in most of the health-food places, even i the supermarkets), and I know some people make jam out of them.
I personally find it's easiest just to put them through a juicing machine along with apples and carrots and other stuff to get all their Vitamin C goodness out of them.
I think you can get Acerola Cherries in many supermarkets, although there may not be much Vitamin C left in them if they're not fresh (eg, if they're canned or candied).
The more recent & exotic discoveries probably haven't made it to the average supermarket shelves yet - might take a while for that to happen.
But Kiwi Fruits are very tasty little items anyway, and they're pretty easy to grow in the garden too. It's a vine, similar to passion fruit and grape vines and so on, but you need one male plant to fertilize the female plants which bear the fruit.
@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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4 Mar 08
Goji berries do also. In fact they contain 500 times more vitamin C by weight, than oranges! Probably why they're classified as a "Superfood".
@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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5 Mar 08
Probably in health food shops, although I've actually bought them in health food sections of regular grocery stores before too now.
@sherrir101 (3670)
• Malinta, Ohio
4 Mar 08
That is very interesting and useful to know. I really like kiwi fruit. I love the sweetness of this fruit. I love the texture of the seeds and the smoothness of the fruit together. When I worked in the Head Start program, we often served this fruit with their breakfast meal. The kids loved it.
@jenncardenas (130)
• United States
4 Mar 08
Wow thats awesome. I love kiwi but don't often buy them, I'm not sure why. But now that I know that they are that nutrient rich I will have to start adding them to my cart more often. Thanks for the information.
