Kiwi juice in a 280ml bottle, from AC Fresh. The fruit is the whole drink: pressed kiwi, nothing else asked of it. Kiwi is a vine fruit, grown on trellises in Italy, New Zealand, Chile and Greece, and it ripens unevenly, which is why a juice made from it tastes different from one bottling to the next.
- Kiwi, pressed into a 280ml bottle.
- Bottled by AC Fresh.
- One fruit, one size, one format.
How it tastes
Green and sharp at the front, with the same faint tartness that runs through the fruit itself. Kiwi carries a lot of acid for something so sweet, and a good press keeps both: the bright edge first, then a softer, almost melon-like middle, then a dry finish. The seeds are where the texture lives, and a juice that keeps some of them tastes fuller than one that has been strained to glass-clear.
Good to know
Kiwi fruit was called the Chinese gooseberry until growers in New Zealand renamed it in the 1950s, after the bird. The fruit is high in vitamin C and contains actinidin, an enzyme that breaks down protein, which is why it behaves differently from most fruit in a kitchen.
