The history and benefits of dragon fruit are rarely known.

in homesteding •  6 years ago 

Hello steemian !!!!!!!

In this post I want to discuss the fruit problem of dragon fruit

Dragon Fruit is included in the family of cactus plants from the genera Hylocereus and Selenicereus. This fruit tree has characteristics where there are thorns on each stem segment. This fruit comes from Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and the countries of Central America and South America but is now also cultivated in Asian countries such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and also in Indonesia. In its home region the fruit is named pitahaya or pitaya roja and is often consumed as an appetizer in people's homes.

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Reasons Why Named Dragon Fruit ???

In about 1870 this plant brought the French from Guyana to Vietnam as an ornamental plant. By the Vietnamese and Chinese people the fruit is considered to be a blessing. Therefore, this fruit is always placed between two green dragon statues on the altar table. The red color of the fruit so striking once among the colors of these green dragons. It is from this custom that the fruit among Vietnamese people deeply affected by Chinese culture is known as Thang Loy (Dragon Fruit). Thang Loy the Vietnamese is then translated in Europe and other English-speaking countries as Dragon Fruit (Dragon Fruit).

Now we discuss the issue of benefit, dragon fruit has many benefits. But here I just summarize some
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1. Prevent cancer

Dragon fruit is a fruit that contains lots of vitamin C that can act as antioxidants that can help fight free radicals that aims to damage the cells of our body cells. Steemian!

2.Improve the body's power system

Dragon fruit has a very high vitamin C to meet 34.5% of our body's nutritional value. because vitamin C is very high is what makes dragon fruit into natural materials that are useful to improve our immune system in the fight against various types of viruses and bacteria that attack.

3. Prevent premature aging

Not only to prevent cancer. Dragon fruit can also prevent premature aging. The very high antioxidant content in dragon fruit can prevent premature aging.
Mineral content and also phosphorus
In the dragon fruit plays an important role in the metabolism of our body cells.

4. Treating acne

For those of you who face acne can be treated with dragon fruit.

Acne is one of the common skin diseases or often affects teenagers or puberty. Sometimes acne also leaves acne scars which of course makes your appearance to be disturbed.
The natural solution you can take to get rid of acne is by using dragon fruit. High vitamin C content in dragon fruit can help us in overcoming the problem of acne.

5. Overcome digestive problems

dragon fruit can help us in overcoming digestive problems that are not smooth or prevent constipation. High fiber content in dragon fruit that is as much as 3g, especially on the seeds of fruit that has a useful effect to help bowel movements in the process of digestion and remove the digestion of the food very well.

Not only the fiber content alone, dragon fruit seeds also have unsaturated fatty acids as a laxative agent that can help you in the process of digestion in the body

6. overcome inflammation

Another benefit of dragon fruit is that it can act as an anti-inflammatory agent because of its flavonoid content. This substance can help the process of inhibition of the inflammatory cells that are running the action so that inflammatory reactions in the body can be minimized or prevented.

Here are some lists of inflammatory diseases that can be prevented or cured by dragon fruit is arthritis, sore throat, dermatitis, even inflammation of the respiratory tract caused by viruses and bacteria

Those are some of the dragon fruit benefits I mentioned.

Hopefully understood and useful. Consumption of dragon fruit to avoid the various diseases I mentioned above.

That is all and thank you

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