{"id":10130,"date":"2024-02-19T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=10130"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:27:28","slug":"do-kiwifruits-improve-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2024\/02\/do-kiwifruits-improve-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Do kiwifruits improve mood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kiwi_fruit_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* A paper has recently been published about a three-way intervention trial (involving 155 people) conducted in New Zealand. Participants needed to have low vitamin C levels.<\/p>\n<p>* One third of the participants were given 250mg vitamin C daily, one third were given a placebo tablet, and the remaining third were given two SunGold\u00ae kiwifruit daily.<\/p>\n<p>* The trial was not randomised, and this led to differences between the three groups, which needed to be adjusted for.<\/p>\n<p>* The study claimed that kiwifruit could improve mood in as few as four days. After adjustment, there were no differences between vitamin C and placebo or kiwifruit and placebo.<\/p>\n<p>* The researchers created a subset of people differently low in vitamin C and claimed results for these. We don't know if these data were adjusted. (Update - correspondence with the lead author confirmed that these data were <em>not<\/em> adjusted. There were therefore <em>no<\/em> results post adjustment).<\/p>\n<p>* The NZ team have been involved in this research since 2017. The first claims for kiwifruit were made in 2020. This paper is more of the same.<\/p>\n<p>* The authors reported no conflicts of interest. The study was funded by Zespri International Limited, which is the world's largest marketer of kiwifruit.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966\"><em>The rest of this article is available to site subscribers, who get access to all articles plus a weekly newsletter.<br \/>\nTo continue reading, please login below or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/site-membership-options\/\">sign up for a subscription<\/a>. 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