The dragon fruit is part of the Hycocereus Undatus family, thus making it one of the widespread red dragon fruit. Typically, the fruit has creamy pulp, or flesh if you like. The fruit originates from the dragon fruit cactus plant, which usually appears like vines.
The plants are drought-tolerant, grows on limestone soils as well as on acid sands, but the soil should be well drained.
It blooms a few times annually, blossoming with beautiful huge aromatic buds.
Dragon fruit is among the most nutritious and wonderful exotic fruits. It is a favorite to many, particularly people of Asian origin. It features a mouth watering light sweet taste, an intense shape and color, not forgetting its outstanding flowers. In addition to being tasty and refreshing, this beautiful fruit boasts of a lot of water and other vital minerals with varied nutritional ingredients.
You can eat Dragonfruit as a desert, raw, of you can juice it and use it in cocktails. Cocktails of ice cream are an example, or into a mouthwatering healthy alcoholic beverage. In Taiwan for instance, the Dragonfruit is used by diabetics to substitute food for rice and to enhance the fiber content of the diet.
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