Golden kiwi
Actinidia chinensis · Temperate fruit
Top 10 pairings
The golden kiwi (Actinidia chinensis) is the smooth-skinned, yellow-fleshed sister of the familiar fuzzy green kiwi — a bronze, hairless berry whose vivid amber flesh is markedly sweeter and far less tart, tasting of mango, melon and tropical fruit rather than the green kiwi's grassy strawberry tang. Best known by Zespri's SunGold cultivar, it is a New Zealand breeding success that turned a different Chinese Actinidia species into a global premium fruit.
Picking a good onedrag
Hard, squeaky, unripeSlumped and fermenting
Firm ripeSlice itHolds an edge: wedges, tarts, salads, anything cut.
GiveFirm; the ends give slightly
Stem endScar dry, slightly sunken
SkinFuzz rubbed thin, skin still taut
Smell at the scarFaintly sweet and green
Reading a just ripe one. Move the slider and the rest of this page — nutrition, pairings — updates with it. These cues are Kiwi's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
76%
Edible part
69 g · skin off
91 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 7× longer than the counter.
90-95%
Humidity
Still air, loosely bagged
Airflow