Cultivation, Nutritional Value, and Health Benefits of Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus spp.): a Review (original) (raw)
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Dragon Fruit, A Fruit for Health Benefits and Nutritional Security
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Dragon fruit (Hylocerus undatus (Haw.) is a perennial, climbing vine belongs to cactaceae family. Its flower is most beautiful in the cactaceae family with bright red skin stubbed with green scales and white or red flesh with tiny black seeds distributed across the flesh of the dragon fruit are edible and nutritious. It is a Fast Growing vine, a crop that once planted, it will grow for about 20 years, and 1 hectare could accommodate about 800 dragon fruit plants. Moreover, it fetches high and fast return to production in the second year after planting, and full production when it attains the age of five. Time to time periodical climate change causes serious stress on the total available resources underneath earth especially water. As a result rate of rainfall become very irratic leads to dryness of soil and weather. Therefore, become a favorable growing conditiosn for its cultivation. It adores that region, which has a dry spell of weather with supplementary irrigation for cultivation. So, there is a wide prospect of its cultivation in India due to the favorable climate and to overcome nutritional security. Dragon fruit is a potential food source for the present and future, besides having great potential for medicine and industrial production. Therefore, the farmer can gain benefits immensely if its cultivation practice is initiated on a large scale apart from the existing farming system and it can explore a wide spread of fruit industry.
A-review: on Nutritional and Medicinal Importance of Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus species)
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Dragon fruit Hylocereus species is a recent table fruit and very much liked for its refreshing juice. The fairly low maintenance, succulent hardy nature high yielding, better keeping quality and survival low irrigation make dragon fruit a paying proposition. It is belongs to family Catacaeae. This is due to its special colour (especially red/purple pigments in red-flesh dragon fruit), high nutritional values and ant-oxidative properties of the fruit. Dragon fruit having heavy nutritional value energy 264 Kcal, water 87 g,protein1.1 g, fat 0.4 g, carbohydrate 11.0 g, fiber 3g, calcium 8.5 mg, iron 1.9 mg, phosphorus 22.5 mg,vitamin B1 (Thiamine) 0.04 mg, vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 0.05 mg and vitamin B3 (Niacin) 0.16 mg per 100 g fruit pulp. It is very useful for lower blood sugars in type 2 diabetes. Dragon fruit is beneficial for carbohydrate metabolism, heart tissues, and teethes, healthy blood and tissue formation strengthening bones due to high calcium content, strengthening immune...
Journal of Horticulture and Postharvest Research, 2018
This study was conducted to evaluate the influences of variety and flowering time on physio-morphological and chemical characters of Dragon fruit. Research Method: Two varieties (BAU Dragon fruit 1 and BAU Dragon fruit 2) and four flowering times (May, June, July, and August) were selected for this investigation. The experiment was laid out in a randomized completely block design with five replications. Findings: Significant variations were observed between two varieties of Dragon fruit. It was found that BAU Dragon fruit 2 exhibited better performances on studied parameters as compared to BAU Dragon fruit 1. It was observed that at 38 days after fruit setting (DAFS), BAU Dragon fruit 2 produced the highest fruit length (10.01cm), fresh weight (307.94 g/fruit), dry weight (24.85 g/fruit), pulp weight (168.98 g/fruit), peel weight (91.32 g/fruit) and total soluble solids (TSS) (25.16% Brix) as compared to another variety. The combine effects of variety and flowering time showed that August flowering of BAU Dragon fruit 2 produced maximum fruit length (10.74 cm) and peel weight (115.65 g/fruit) while May flowering of BAU Dragon fruit 2 produced maximum fresh weight (456.50 g/fruit), pulp weight (302.12 g/fruit), moisture content (94.63%) and TSS (27.17 %Brix) as compared to other flowering time. In terms of time required to fruit maturity, August flowering BAU dragon fruit 2 matured earlier (30.6 days) than June flowering (35.04 days). Research limitations: Evaluation of more varieties of dragon fruit was a research limitation. Originality/value: These findings reveal that flowering time irrespective of variety has direct effects on fruit growth and development of Dragon fruit.
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