Dragon Fruit Pitaya
Dragon Fruit Pitaya
Tropical fruits: mangosteen, dragon fruit
If you like tropical fruits, you are definately like these amazing fruits like mangosteen and dragon fruit. Let's talk more about it.
Mangosteen
This is not mango. This is mangosteen. The botanical name is Garcinia mangostana. It can be found in Southeast Asia, Central and South America. Mangosteen also named like "the queen of fruits" (Asia) and "the food of the Gods" (Caribbean). The rind of the fruit is red when it is ripe and not edible. The white edible flesh is Very Sweet and delicious and looks like garlic cloves. Among the raw fruit, the mangosteen juice is also very popular.
Mangosteen is rich in xanthones and fibre. The rind has also many useful elements that can help to cure some diseases such as tuberculosis, urinary tract infections, infected wounds, malaria, gonorrhoea and syphilis, hyperkeratosis, eczema, seborrhoea, psoriasis and such.
Dragon fruit
The dragon fruit has many names. Botanical name is Hylocereus undatus (Red Dragon fruit) and Selenicereus megalanthus (yellow dragon fruit). It also known as Pitaya or Pitahaya. It can be found in many tropical countries of Asia and Central America. Dragon fruit is a fruit of cacti. Dragon fruit Cactus Plant has big and very Beautiful Flowers that blooms only at night and pollinated by bats and moths.
Pitaya has white or red or yellow edible flesh with many small black seeds inside. The taste of fruit is very tenter and sweet. You can eat dragon fruit separately, add it to the fruit salad, Ice Cream, blend it in a smoothie. There are many ways to eat pitahaya.
Dragon fruit has many vitamins, minerals and useful components: Vitamin C, vitamin b, Fiber, Carotene, fat, ashes, calcium, riboflavin, protein, niacin, iron.
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What is Pitaya Nutrition?
The typical nutritional value per 100g of raw pitaya (of which 55 g are edible) is as follows:
* Water 80-90 g
* Carbohydrates 9-14 g
* Protein 0.2-0.5 g
* Fat 0.1-0.6 g
* Fiber 0.3-0.9 g
* Ash 0.4-0.7 g
* Calories: 35-50
* Calcium 6-10 mg
* Iron 0.3-0.7 mg
* Phosphorus 16 - 36 mg
* Carotene (Vitamin A) traces
* Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) traces
* Niacin (Vitamin B3) 0.2-0.45 mg
* Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) 4-25 mg
http://rashamus.com/2008/07/20/pitaya-dragon-fruitpitaya-dragon-fruit/
I don't understand what your question is anymore because of all the nutritional facts you've posted but if you are wondering what a pitaya is, It's a funky looking fruit that grows in Mexico. that is red on the outside with a spikey skin but white on the inside with a bunch of black tiny seeds or i can also be red on the inside as well with the same tiny black seed. here's a link. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=pitaya+fruit&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 hope this helps
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