Dragon fruit is a fruit that recently became popular in the community of Indonesia. This fruit get its popularity caused by the benefits are very much, especially for the health of the human body. In addition dragon fruit also has an attractive appearance and unique. The pink dragon fruit skin is also equipped with leaves that look like thorns on durian fruit.
This fruit originally came from countries in South America and Central America. Furthermore, dragon fruit is growing up to Asian countries. And it turns out the fruit is growing and growing well in Asian countries, including Indonesia.
Nutrition in dragon fruit is very much. Starting from vitamins, protein, fiber, and minerals. Simply put in 100 grams of dragon fruit, contained nutrients with the following details:
- Air of 87 grams of .
- Thiamine or Vitamin B1 of 0.04 milligrams.
- Riboflavin or Vitamin B12 of 0.05 milligrams.
- Niasin or Vitamin B3 of 0.16 milligrams.
- Ascorbic acid or Vitamin C as much as 9.4 milligrams.
- Protein 1 , 1 gram.
- Serat as much as 0.71 grams.
- Calcium 134.5 milligrams.
- Carbohydrates as much as 11.5 grams.
- Fosfor as much as 87 milligrams.
- Iron 0.65 milligrams.
Dragon fruit has a lot of nutritional content, therefore, dragon fruit becomes very popular. More and more people also make dragon fruit as one way of treatment of certain diseases, and it did give a significant result.
- Preventing Cancer Cancer is one of the most feared diseases by humans today. The fact that cancer has no way of healing, makes many people very careful and maintain their health to not get cancer. One way to prevent cancer is to consume dragon fruit. Dragon fruit contains a lot of antioxidant phytoalbumin. These compounds can increase the formation of carcinogenic free radicals that prevent cancer cells from developing in the body. In addition dragon fruit also streamline the work of removing toxins out of the body, including also toxins that trigger cancer.
- Supports Diet Program Dragon fruit is a high-protein fruit, but low in fat and carbohydrates. So that the dragon fruit into a fruit that is suitable for consumption when dieting. Protein content can meet the needs of the body and fat and carbohydrate content is not worried to interfere with your diet program. In addition, the fiber content in dragon fruit can also help to smooth digestion.
- Preventing Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is also one of the many diseases that attack humans today, because of an unhealthy lifestyle. In fact, dragon fruit can prevent the disease from infecting humans. Dragon fruit capable of killing the evil cells that are produced due to unhealthy lifestyle by humans. So that DM disease can be prevented.
- Helping Healing Cough and Asthma Cough does look trivial for some people, but for some people cough can cause shortness of breath is very heavy. Especially for people with asthma. It turns out the dragon fruit can help cough and asthma healing that often interfere with breathing by relieving the effects of cough and asthma. Therefore, people with asthma is strongly recommended to eat this fruit.
- Beneficial to Bone Health Dragon fruit has a high mineral content such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. This content makes dragon fruit into food that is a good source to meet the needs of bone nutrition to be able to stay healthy and strong.
