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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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