Heaviest eggplant / aubergine

The heaviest aubergine/eggplant (Solanum melongena) weighed 5.078 kg (11 lb 3 oz) and was grown by Martin Truttmann (Switzerland) as confirmed in Esslingen, Zurich, Switzerland, on 12 September 2025.

The fruit had a circumference of 80 cm (2 ft 7.5 in) around its middle.

The aubergine was of the Aswad variety and grown from a seed descended from a 7.744-lb (3.512-kg) fruit, the previous European record holder, that had been grown by Swiss competitive gardener Matthias Leuenberger.

This surpassed the previous record 3.969 kg (8 lb 12 oz) for an eggplant grown by Erik Gunstrom (USA) that was confirmed just a few weeks earlier in Export, Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA, on 19 August 2025.