PITAHAYA OR DRAGON

VALERIA NARANJO

2do Ciclo
 Pitahaya is known as dragon fruit. The dragon fruit is red and
yellow

Fruit pulp is full of seed. The yellow variety cultivated in high

tropical and tropical areas, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru,
Venezuela, basically Centro America.

It is about 9 centimeters long and about 7 centimeters wide. The

fruit has lost its delicate flavor is insipid.

Pitahaya will put it in the fridge for a while before drinking.

Pitahayas ripe peeled easily by cutting one side of the flower and
pulling down.

The dragon fruit is cut on one side of the flower and pulling down. It
is cut into slices and should avoid chewing the seeds.
 Botanical description
The plant has two kinds of roots that are in the soil and air
basal adventitious roots.
They will grow along the stems on the flat face and serve to
fix the plant support.
The stems are fleshy with three edges and in the center is the
vascular package.
These are some rounded buds called areolas, which are
important because they give rise to the branches and
flowers.
The flowers are hermaphrodite and open only at night and
close in the morning.
Pollination will be carried out with pollen from the same
flower.
The fruit is a large oval or globular berry, the pulp is whitish,
pink or purple. The cover can be red, purple or yellow.
The fruit is 70% pulp and 30% peel.
 HARVEST

The fruits will be harvested when they are mature.

The most recommended way to harvest the fruit
dragon fruit is cut with a piece of stem with
pruning shears.
A stem triangle shaped cut is made
There must be very careful not to injure the
vascular tissue.
How to reap the fruit keeps longer in good
condition.
 USES AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

The pitahaya or dragon has many uses: ornamental plant,

protection, medical and food barrier.
As medicinal plant are healing kidney ailments, eliminates amoeba,
removes dandruff, sores healing and skin tumors, and cures gastritis
and heart disease.
As food consumed fresh, to prepare water and ice cream.
The stems are used as fodder for cattle.
In industry do many products are wine and vinegars, soft
drinks, syrups, jams, jellies and as natural coloring of the
shell.
Pitahaya is used as colorants for food and cosmetic
industries.
This popular fruit be consumed fresh for people
Fruit markets will be attractive to the country
 Nutritional composition
This fruit will be natural since it is rich in fiber, calcium, phosphorus
and vitamin C.
This is a fruit has many benefits as medicinal qualities with a broad
spectrum of applications, from the common relief, such as gastritis,
stomach problems, to be a recommended for people with diabetes
and problems endocringenos fruit.
This fruit will have Captina, a tonic for the heart.
The advantage is recognized in this fruit is its content of natural oils;
in the pulp and seeds.
It is to improve the functioning of the digestive tract