Pitaya can protect health, detoxify beauty and improve human immune function. It is suitable for men, women and children, and it is beneficial to eat it regularly. Generally, it can be eaten once a day, and diabetics are forbidden to take it.

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Pitaya (scientific name: Hylocereus undatus? Foo-Lon') is a cultivated variety of the cactus family, which belongs to the measuring ruler. It climbs succulent shrubs and has air roots. Branches are numerous, extending, leaves are often winged, edges are wavy or crenate, dark green to light blue-green, bony; Flowers funnel-shaped and open at night; Scales are ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, calyx-shaped tepals are yellowish green, linear to linear-lanceolate, petaloid tepals are white, oblong-oblanceolate, filaments are yellow-white, styles are yellow-white, berries are red, oblong, fruit umbilicus is small, and pulp is white and red. The seeds are obovate and black, and the hilum is small. Flowering and fruiting in July-1February.

Efficacy and function of pitaya

1, pitaya is rich in vitamin C, which can effectively remove oxygen free radicals from human body and achieve the effect of beauty beauty.

2. The iron content of pitaya is extremely high, far exceeding the average fruit. Iron is an indispensable element for human hematopoiesis. Iron deficiency in human body can cause anemia symptoms, so eating pitaya has the effect of preventing anemia.

3. Pitaya is rich in plant protein, which is a rare substance in general fruits and vegetables. This substance is a natural antidote and has a good detoxification effect on the human body. Especially when there are heavy metals in the human body, it will combine with them and be discharged through excretion, which can also protect the stomach wall and enhance the gastrointestinal function.

4. It is a low-calorie and low-energy fruit, rich in water-soluble dietary fiber, and has the functions of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat and preventing intestinal cancer.

5. The content of anthocyanin in pitaya is high, and the antioxidant effect of anthocyanin is obvious. It has antioxidant, antioxidant and anti-aging effects, and can also prevent amnesia, Alzheimer's disease and other symptoms.

6. The fruit juice of pitaya can improve human immunity and has a good inhibitory effect on tumor growth and viral infections.

7. Pitaya has a good effect of moistening intestines, and can also protect eyes, increase bone density and help cell membrane formation.

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