Red pitaya is not a transgenic fruit, but a variety of pitaya, but its relative yield is relatively small. Pitaya is a variety introduced from abroad in China. There are many kinds, including red skin and red meat, white skin and white meat, red skin and white meat, yellow skin and white meat, etc. Pitaya with red skin and red meat has the best quality, rich nutrition and dense taste.

Efficacy and function of pitaya

Pitaya is rich in nutrition. Proper consumption is beneficial to people's health. Has effects in expelling toxin, protecting stomach wall, resisting aging, whitening skin, reducing weight, moistening intestine, and preventing colorectal cancer.

The juice of pitaya is sweet and delicious. Besides being eaten fresh, it can also be used for brewing wine, canning and making jam. Flowers can be dried into vegetables, and their colors can be refined into edible pigments, which have the effects of preventing constipation, promoting eye health care, increasing bone density, helping cell membrane formation, preventing anemia and neuritis, angular stomatitis, lowering cholesterol, whitening skin and preventing dark spots.

It also has the effects of expelling toxin, resisting free radicals, preventing senile diseases, slimming and preventing colorectal cancer. According to the latest experiment, the juice of pitaya can inhibit the growth of tumor and has a good effect on diseases such as immune response inhibition.

Is the red pitaya dyed?

Red pitaya is not dyed. Pitaya has three varieties: white heart, red heart and yellow heart. Among them, the red heart is only a subspecies of pitaya, which was introduced from Vietnam and was not dyed. If pitaya needs to be dyed with pigment, it needs high labor cost and is not cost-effective. Moreover, the storage time of colored fruits is generally much shorter, which is not conducive to sales.

Avoid eating red dragon fruit.

1, avoid cold and cold food: Red pitaya is a cool fruit. Eating with cold food can easily aggravate the cold in the body and even cause abdominal pain and diarrhea, such as crabs, mangosteen, watermelons, bananas, water chestnuts, persimmons, cucumbers, chilled beer and ice cream.

2, avoid foods rich in gum: foods rich in gum can promote intestinal peristalsis, while red dragon fruit itself can relax the bowels and accelerate the digestion of food. Eating them together is easy to have diarrhea, such as persimmon, tomato, hawthorn, papaya, black dates, figs and so on.