Purple dragon fruit is a soft fruit, juicy, cool, and popular. Food is often used as desserts, inviting guests or making smoothies, soft drinks daily. Dragon fruit contains vitamins C, B1, B2 and B3, essential minerals including phosphorus, iron and calcium, which are good for health. Foods that work to beautify the skin, fight cancer, improve cardiovascular health, control and prevent diabetes, improve the digestive system and are especially good for the eyes.
Purple dragon fruit intestine Strong growth, mature branches quite large, strong, shaped and color quite similar to white flesh dragon fruit and red flesh dragon fruit LD1, young buds are pink red, almost similar to red flesh dragon fruit LD1. The tree has strong flowering ability and almost year-round, the flower has the ability to naturally pollinate to produce fruit. The time from planting to the first flowering 9-11 months, the main flowering time from March 3 to August and likely to bloom naturally in the inverse season from October to February. The fruit has an average weight of 350-400g, the pods are bright red, bright, quite glossy, the ears are green to red green and quite hard. The flesh is purple-pink, slightly sweet and sour, the average brix is 16.7%, the flesh is quite firm (average 0.96 kg / cm2). Plants are capable of bearing fruit 10-12 months after planting. In the main crop (April-September dl), the average actual yield reaches 10, 34kg / head / crop (16 month old tree) in three provinces of Tien Giang, Long An and Ba Ria-Vung Tau. In the opposite crop (October 10, 2016), the average actual yield was 2.74 kg / head / crop (18 month old tree) in Tien Giang and Long An provinces.
Great health benefits from dragon fruit
Dragon fruit is an excellent source of vitamin C. Vitamin C has an important role in supporting the immune system and may even help speed up and reduce the severity of the common cold.
One of the dragon health's best health benefits is to reduce arthritis. Dragon fruit is called anti-inflammatory fruit. People with arthritis are encouraged to add dragon fruit to their healthy diet.
Dragon fruit is rich in vitamin A in the form of carotene - essential for retina, brightness and vision of the eyes. Many eye problems, especially age-related macular degeneration, can be caused by a deficiency of vitamin A. Dragon fruit can help maintain and improve vision.
Dragon fruit can help improve heart health by reducing bad cholesterol levels and adding good cholesterol. This fruit is rich in monounsaturated fat that helps the heart to rest in the best condition.