diff --git a/parquet/Cargo.toml b/parquet/Cargo.toml
index dd6b2ac681d..54992d864d8 100644
--- a/parquet/Cargo.toml
+++ b/parquet/Cargo.toml
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ zstd-sys = { version = ">=2.0.0, <2.0.14", default-features = false }
 all-features = true
 
 [features]
-default = ["arrow", "snap", "brotli", "flate2", "lz4", "zstd", "base64"]
+default = ["arrow", "snap", "brotli", "flate2", "lz4", "zstd", "base64", "simdutf8"]
 # Enable lz4
 lz4 = ["lz4_flex"]
 # Enable arrow reader/writer APIs