(14 May 2025)
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Wellington, New Zealand – 8 May 2025
1. Close of feijoas fruit
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Wellington, New Zealand – 11 May 2025
2. Feijoas in bowls, some cut in half
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Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand – 6 May 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Evans, Author of "Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging":
"Feijoas is a fruit that New Zealanders are weirdly obsessed with. It doesn’t come from here, it comes from South America, but we’ve really embraced it into our culture in kind of really surprising and beautiful ways. And yeah, I would love for the countries that where it comes from, for the Brazilians and the Uruguayans, to know how much we love their fruit and how important it is to us. And also it’s delicious."
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Wellington, New Zealand – 11 May 2025
4. Feijoas on shed roof
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Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand – 6 May 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Evans, Author of "Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging":
"It’s sort of, there’s something about receiving something as a gift that makes it literally taste different and feel different and form connections. And I think that’s what’s special about the feijoas, is that we, it’s sort of non-commercialized. We turn up our noses at the idea of buying them in the shop, you know, it’s like a last resort. You just sort of expect to get them for free. And I think that’s what makes them different to pretty much any other fruit in this country."
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Wellington, New Zealand – 11 May 2025
6. Two men removing feijoas from the roof of their shed
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lizzy Ward-Pickering, local resident:
"It’s really gritty. It’s like a warm sweet, a little sour but like, gritty. I’m not a fan. It’s almost like a little bit bitter at the end. It’s like, it’s got the texture of, it’s like gritty, but then it’s also like snot. So it’s like dewy. There’s like little bits in here that are like dewy and it’s giving snot, snot and grits, but a little bit sweet and sour. But I’m not a fan. My mind has not changed."
8. Woman raking ripe feijoas from under the trees in her yard
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Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand – 12 May 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brent Fuller, New Zealand Feijoa Growers Association spokesperson:
"Feijoas, they’ll keep in the chiller for, say, two or three weeks, but that’s about it. So, exporting is tricky, because you really have to air freight them to the location so that they get there quickly, which means the majority of growers supply the local market. As well as that, you’ve got a lot more regulations when you send fruit overseas, so, a lot more costs and curb when you’re sending fruit overseas."
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Wellington, New Zealand – 11 May 2025
10. Man selecting feijoas at a supermarket
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Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand – 6 May 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Evans, Author of "Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging":
"There’s something that kind of bonds us and gives us an excuse to talk to the people around us. And I think there’s very few fruits like that. The Kiwi fruit is not like that at all, and we don’t care about it in the same way. It’s very successful. It makes us a lot of money, but we don’t love it the way that we love feijoas."
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Wellington, New Zealand – 11 May 2025
12. Box of free feijoas outside house
STORYLINE:
The unofficial national fruit of New Zealand isn’t native to the country – it’s South American.
It isn’t exclusively found in New Zealand. And it’s not, perhaps surprisingly, the kiwi. It’s the feijoa.
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