How to eat and practice dragon fruit
1. Squeeze the juice and drink it
Peel the dragon fruit, cut it into small pieces or dices, and add it to the juice. In the juicer, you can leave a little after cooking and put it on top of the juice; add sugar and boiling water to the juicer; start the juicer, pour out the juice after it stops working, and add the small dices to the juice.
2. Make salad
Dragon fruit can be eaten with many fruits, and it is a good choice to make salad dressing. Specific method: Peel the dragon fruit, cut into bite-sized pieces, put it in a container with other fruits or vegetables, add an appropriate amount of salad dressing, and stir evenly.
3. Dip it in honey and eat it
The dragon fruit has a bit of astringency. When eating, cut the dragon fruit, pour honey on it with a spoon and eat it, you can remove the astringency, or scoop it out. The pulp of dragon fruit is also good when mixed with honey.
4. Fried dragon fruit
Cut the dragon fruit pulp into thick slices; stir the flour, cornstarch and baking powder with water to form a paste, and put the dragon fruit slices in for 10 minutes spare. Put oil in a pot and boil, put the powdered dragon fruit slices into the oil, pick them up when the outside turns yellow.
Benefits of eating dragon fruit:
Prevents hardening of blood vessels
The anthocyanin content in dragon fruit fruits is high, especially the red meat varieties. Anthocyanin is an antioxidant with obvious effects, which can effectively prevent hardening of blood vessels, thereby preventing heart attacks and strokes caused by blood clot formation; it can also fight against free radicals and effectively resist aging; it can also improve the effect on the brain. Prevent cell degeneration and inhibit the occurrence of dementia.
Detoxify and protect the stomach
Dragon fruit is rich in plant-based albumin that is rarely found in ordinary fruits and vegetables. This active albumin will automatically combine with heavy metal ions in the human body. , excreted from the body through the excretory system, thus playing a detoxifying role. In addition, albumin also has a protective effect on the stomach wall.
Whitening and weight loss
Dragon fruit is rich in vitamin C that can whiten skin and rich in water-soluble dietary fiber that can lose weight, lower blood sugar, moisturize the intestines, and prevent colorectal cancer.
Prevent anemia
The iron content in dragon fruit is higher than that of ordinary fruits. Iron is an indispensable element for the production of hemoglobin and other iron substances. Take in an appropriate amount of iron. It can also prevent anemia.