Protect against free radical damage: A study on healthy foods from Rutgers University compared the 27 most popular fruit and determined that kiwifruit was the most nutritionally dense. Plus, it makes the short list of fruit with substantial amounts of vitamin E, and contains more vision-saving lutein than other fruit or vegetables, except for corn.
Lower blood-clot risk: In a 2004 study from the University of Oslo in Norway, participants who ate two or three kiwis for 28 days significantly reduced their potential to form a clot. They also got a bonus benefit: Their triglycerides, a blood fat linked to heart attack, dropped by 15%
