This is super-popular exotic fruits in these days and from different species of cactus. You can find them in almost every supermarket in Canada, in each case. They look so interesting! This is a fruit on the fire ... also appears as a small flame!
There are 3 different types:
1. Pink skin with white flesh
2. Pink skin with red meat
3. Yellowing of the skin, white flesh
Although at home in Mexico, Central America and South America arealso cultivated in many places: the countries of Southeast Asia, even in Israel.
Dragon fruit, at least when shipped to Canada, are relatively tasteless and does not seem worth the time or money. However, dragon fruit remained extremely nutritious!
* Antioxidant Rich: varieties of red meat in this.
* Vitamins: fruit pitaya is in these areas.
* Supports digestion, because it is rich in dietary fiber
* Helps prevent cancer and diabetes.
* Helpneutralize toxic substances: heavy metals, reduce cholesterol and hypertension.
* Helps to relieve asthma and cough, if eaten regularly.
Check out the nutritional profile of only 100 g of dragon fruit:
* Fat 0.61g
* Fiber 0.9 g
* Phosphorus 36.1mg
* Carotene 0.012g
* Protein 0.229g
* Water 83.0g
* Calcium 8.8mg
* Iron 0.65mg
* Riboflavin 0.045mg
* Niacin 0.430mg
* Ascorbic acid 9.0mg
AlthoughNot taste incredible, here in Canada, these are good reasons to work in your diet!
You can eat raw, you can wine (see my blog entry how to make wine), or juice from them, the flowers can be eaten or steeped in tea. The texture is to eat them raw, like a kiwi fruit with small seeds that are edible but indigestible. The flesh is slightly sweet and very low in calories.
I propose to eat raw fruit, because they retain themost of the nutrients in this form. Not sweet enough, add a fruit salad cut into small pieces. You can also juice it! I think it would be fabulous Juiced with lychee nuts and lime!
Hopefully this is all I wanted to know more about the fruit of the dragon!
Delicious food!
