In tropical countries and some tropical countries, people use dragon fruit as a favorite refreshment and dessert. Although dragon fruit is delicious to eat when ripe, there are some people who like to eat it when the fruit is just ripe and has a sweet and sour taste.

People with obesity and high blood pressure should eat dragon fruit because it contains mucus that will help reduce the amount of cholesterol in food and bile salts. So, it is also very suitable for people with diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic constipation. According to some studies, dragon fruit can also reduce the rate of uric acid in the blood and prevent gout and diabetes.

Just 600-700g dragon fruit is enough to provide the necessary amount of vitamin C for the body to fight diseases caused by vitamin C deficiency and scurvy. Dragon fruit has the effect of reducing fat, preserving the beauty of the skin for women when processed into drinks such as dragon fruit tea, dragon fruit juice, dragon fruit smoothie, dragon fruit jelly...

Dragon fruit also contains rare albumin and anthocyanins, rich in vitamins and soluble fiber. Albumin is a glue that works to detoxify toxins when heavy metal poisoning.

In addition, dragon fruit also has some other effects:

The trunk of the plant has the effect of helping the tendons and bones to stretch and strengthen and clear the meridians and detoxify. You peel, thorns, wash with salt water, then pound with water to apply or you can use the residue to cover the wounds of fire burns, boiling water burns, parotid gland inflammation, boils, broken bones.

Flowers have a tonic effect, except for cough. For those who are weak or have phlegm cough, dragon fruit flowers can be cooked with lean pork to treat the disease. Using fresh or dried dragon fruit flowers to drink or brew tea to drink has the effect of curing bronchitis, lymphadenitis, tuberculosis, and alcohol detoxification.