Medicine

French Kiwi

fruit of tonicity and the form.

Exceptionally rich in vitamin C, light in calories, Kiwi was recognized "fruit numéro1" for its concentration in nutritive elements. Friend of tonicity and the form, it very regularly deserves to be present in our food.

Kiwi is really a fruit sporting superstar for the vitamin C!

With a content of 80 Mg of vitamin C for 100g, kiwi exceeds and by far the majority of the other fruits (including citrus fruits, however famous rich person in this vitamin, and which contain of them only 37 to 53 Mg). Its skin makes screen with respect to oxygen in air, therefore its content remains very stable in time: the vitamin quality of kiwi does not decrease with the passing days.

To him all alone, a kiwi * brings the quantity of vitamin C which we need each day: nutritional contributions conseillés**sont indeed of 80 Mg for the adult and the teenager, and from 50 to 60 Mg for the children.

Kiwi is thus, the obviously, a fruit to be privileged in our food, in particular during the bad season when it is necessary to face the aggressions microbial and viral, and each time one feels tiredness or drops by form.

A Kiwi with the breakfast, it is the guarantee tonicity and vitality for the day!

* A Kiwi weighs on average 110 with 120g, that is to say approximately 100g peeled Net once. ** Nutritional Contributions Advised for the French population - CNRS CNERNA 1992

Definition vitamin C
The vitamin C stimulates the defence reactions of the organization, it intervenes in very many metabolism, and has invaluable antioxydant properties. The vitamin C is provided primarily by the fruits and the vegetables spawning time, of the food which must appear tous.les.jours in the food.

Another appreciable asset of Kiwi: its energy "discretion". It does not provide more than 47 calories for 100g Net, that is to say an average kiwi, which is completely reasonable (the daily energy contribution is estimated at 2000 calories for an adult woman, and at 2700 calories for a man).

The energy of kiwi is due essentially to its natural sugars (especially of the fructose and glucose easily assimilable), of which the rate, moderate, remains in the neighbourhoods of 10%. These components give him also the slightly sweetened key which balances its very characteristic acidulated savour.

With a kiwi in dessert, not of concern for the line: the heating addition is always light!

Thanks to its abundant fibres (2,5g for 100g) and supported very well, kiwi helps to fight carefully against the sluggishness of the bowels... and to keep a flat belly!

Kiwi is also a very good source of minerals, substances which play a regulating and protective role in the organization. It forms part of the fresh fruits richest in potassium (it contains some close to 300mg for 100g). It brings also quantities considerable of calcium, of magnesium, as well as many trace elements (iron, copper, zinc, manganese, iodine, etc...).

Among all the fruits, kiwi is that which has the strongest concentration in nutritive elements. Such is the conclusion of a recent study carried out in the United States, and which compared the 27 fruits most usually consumed.

For each one of these fruits, one determined the index of nutritional density. This index takes into account the concentration in nine essential nutritive elements (vitamins, minerals, proteins...) and expresses the capacity of the fruit required the day labourers quantities recommended for these elements.

It is the kiwi which arrives at the head with an index of nutritional density of 16, the highest index of all the fruits.