Is kiwi a mixture of banana and strawberry?!

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Kiwi is a specific fruit. I think what is confusing your brother is the fact that a lot of products combine the flavor of kiwi with either strawberry or banana. That's a little like saying that a mango is just a pineapple because you can buy pineapple-mango juice!

Your brother is wrong. It's a Chinese fruit, which was commonly known in the West as "Chinese gooseberry". The Chinese name for it translates into English as "golden hairy goat's testicles". The clever New Zealanders started growing it and, as "Chinese gooseberry" is not a very marketable name (and "golden hairy goat's testicles" even less marketable), they changed its name to "kiwifruit", in reference to their native flightless bird, the kiwi. New Zealanders are also often called Kiwis (usually by non-NZers). The New Zealanders are quite good at successfully renaming fruit. They changed the name of the "tree-tomato" to "tamarillo" and the "African horned melon" to "kiwano". Marketing genii. There is a newer variety called "kiwi gold" which has yellow flesh and is less tart. As to why the kiwifruit is often misnamed "kiwi" - it's because Americans didn't have a clue what a real kiwi was, so they unknowingly shortened "kiwifruit" to "kiwi".

No. It is it's own tropical fruit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit

Kiwi is a fruit of it's own not a cross.
It originated in New-zealand and was named after it's national bird-kiwi.

I think kiwi is its own fruit and not a combination of banana and strawberry.

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No, kiwi is a fruit. Either your brother is... special.. or he's winding you up.

no it just tastes like that!