Sena was at the store yesterday and some guy (a total stranger) in a motorized scooter rode up to her and said, “I have trouble sleeping” and asked her where to find the kiwi fruit in the produce section. It didn’t faze her because this didn’t sound like a pickup line, you know like that joke on the TV commercial: “Why do iguanas reproduce only once a year? That’s because they have e-reptile dysfunction.”
Actually, the guy was looking for kiwi fruit because he had heard that it can help you sleep. So, she told him where it was. A little later, she saw him wandering around and asked him if he’d found the kiwi fruit. He hadn’t so she got a package for him.
It turns out there is a news article saying there are a few small studies indicating that eating a couple of kiwis (remember, this is about the fruit, not the birds) about an hour before you hit the sack can help you sleep. They have a lot of serotonin which your body turns into melatonin which can promote sleep.
You have to be careful about eating kiwis if you have a latex or fruit allergy because you could have a reaction. And if you have diabetes you need to be aware kiwis are high in sugar.
The thing is, you have to eat a couple of them about an hour before bedtime. Often enough I find that I’m napping in the evening in front of the TV long before then—but that’s probably because there’s usually nothing on but reruns and the usual commercials about cannabidiol (CBD) products, total body deodorants, and snake oil for e-reptile dysfunction.
In fact, there’s also some limited evidence that kiwi fruit can just help you feel better in general. It’s mainly about yellow kiwi fruit rather than the green ones. The yellow ones are called SunGold, and they have a lot of vitamin C. Actually, if you don’t like kiwi fruit, you can find other fruits and vegetables containing a lot of vitamin C, including strawberries and oranges—and broccoli. Go with kiwi fruit.
On the other hand, it looks like you might pay about 3x more for the yellow kiwi than the green.
Kiwi fruits are packed with vitamins. You can get 100% of vitamin C from SunGold and they have more than 20 vitamins and minerals. More than a million tons of kiwi fruit are produced every year. You can make kiwi pizza-if you’re on drugs!
And if you eat a couple of SunGold kiwis a day you could feel so good you might be more willing to contribute to the foundation for assisting iguanas with e-reptile dysfunction.
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