Why is red pitaya sweeter than white pitaya? Why is red pitaya sweeter than white pitaya
Red hearts contain more sugar. In general, the sugar content of red pitaya fruit is more than 15%, the sweetness is higher than that of white pitaya fruit, and the taste is better than that of white pitaya fruit; In addition, red pitaya fruit contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, low calorie high phospholipid, and has the effect of reducing blood sugar and blood lipids.
Specific differences:
1. The taste is different. Whether pitaya is delicious depends on the variety. Generally, red heart pitaya is more delicious than white heart pitaya and tastes better. Its sugar content is more than 15 degrees, and the taste is sweet but not greasy.
2. The nutritional value is different. In addition to being better in taste, red pitaya is also far more nutritious than white pitaya. Red pitaya is dark in color and contains more carotene. Carotene is one of the most effective antioxidants against free radicals, which helps to improve immunity and protect the fiber part of eye lens.
3. Prices are different. The price of red pitaya is higher than that of white pitaya. This relates to two reasons. On the one hand, the red heart pitaya on the market today is generally imported from Vietnam, with high cost. On the other hand, consumers are no longer satisfied with the common varieties of fruits, and high-end imported fruits like Red Heart pitaya are increasingly favored. At the same time, consumers have more confidence in the safety and quality of imported fruits.
How to eat red heart pitaya and white heart pitaya:
1、 Dragon Fruit Health Wine
Ingredients: 600g red heart pitaya, 250g rock sugar, 600g rice wine
Practice:
1. Rinse the pitaya fruit, dry it completely, peel it and cut it into small pieces
2. Put a layer of pitaya slices and rock sugar into a wide mouth glass bottle
3. Pour the wine and seal the bottle
4. Stick the production date label, place it in a cool place, soak it for three months, then open the filter residue and bottle it for drinking
Tips:
1. The nutritional value of red heart and white heart pitaya is equivalent, and either can be brewed, but the wine color of red heart variety is more beautiful.
2. As the aroma of pitaya fruit is not enough, the wine will have a strong taste. It is recommended to add some juice after dilution.
2、 Pitaya sago sauce
Ingredients: 1 pitaya fruit, a handful of sago, some rock sugar and medlar
Practice:
1. Boil sago: it needs to go through two cold and hot alternations, first boil until there is white spot in the middle, which is translucent, and then pick up the cold water once; Boil the sago in boiling water until transparent, and then scoop up the second cold water to make it crystal clear and smooth.
2. Cut the pitaya fruit in half, dig out the pulp with a scoop to keep the peel intact, then put the excavated pulp into the peel, add sago and rock sugar.
Efficacy: Eating regularly in summer can strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Precautions for eating pitaya:
1. People with deficiency of spleen and stomach are not recommended to eat pitaya fruit. They think that patients with deficiency of stomach will generally experience retching after eating some food, and those with more severe symptoms will experience vomiting, vomiting above, diarrhea below, diarrhea and diarrhea below. People with severe symptoms will often have diarrhea, and will also show a very white face, but it is not true. Normal white, but pale, and the limbs will often be. For such people, the law suggests that they should eat less pitaya fruit, because such people are patients with spleen and stomach deficiency cold, and pitaya fruit is also a kind of benign fruit, so people with spleen and stomach deficiency cold will only have the opposite effect after eating cold fruit, and become more serious.
2. Women should pay attention not to eat pitaya fruit during menstruation. Even women who love to eat pitaya fruit should bear it in these days every month, because eating pitaya fruit during menstruation is likely to lead to poor menstruation.
3. It's better not to eat pitaya fruit with milk. Eating pitaya fruit with milk will lead to indigestion, so you should pay attention to it in your daily life.
4. Diabetic patients should not eat pitaya, because the sugar in pitaya is generally in the form of glucose, which is very easy to be absorbed by the human body. Diabetic patients are not recommended to absorb more sugar.
