Each 100g pitaya contains only 60 calories, which is a slimming fruit with low fat and calories. Pitaya contains more cellulose, which is easy to make people feel full and help to reduce food intake. In addition, pitaya can excrete waste in the body and speed up metabolism, all of which help to lose weight.
Pitaya is rich in iron, which helps to promote the production of hemoglobin and increase the number of red blood cells. Therefore, Pitaya can play a role in preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia. Pitaya has the functions of clearing away heat, cooling blood, relaxing bowels and diuresis, and contains a lot of water-soluble fiber, which can moisten the intestines and relax bowels and expel excess fat and toxins from the body. It is a good fruit for expelling toxin and relaxing bowels. Contains plant albumin, which will automatically combine with heavy metal ions in the human body and be excreted through the excretory system, thus playing the role of detoxification. In addition, albumin has protective effect on gastric wall.
Pitaya contains 350 mg of potassium per kloc-0/00. Potassium can promote the metabolism of sodium and water in the body and avoid edema and obesity caused by water retention in the body. People with edema constitution can often eat pitaya to eliminate edema. Anthocyanins rich in pitaya have strong antioxidant activity, which can effectively resist free radicals, prevent healthy cells from canceration, inhibit cancer cell proliferation, prevent vascular sclerosis, and prevent cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer's disease. Pitaya contains plant albumin, which is rarely found in ordinary fruits. This colloidal substance has a certain detoxification effect on metal poisoning. Moreover, the albumin in pitaya has good stability and high quality, so the detoxification function is also very stable. People who are often exposed to heavy metals can eat pitaya to detoxify.