Welcome to the dragon fruit pitaya and dragon fruit Foodlywise introductory pages about the wonderful nutritious dragonfruit! Here you will find an overview of dragon fruit, including a summary of dragon fruit health benefits, an ever growing repository of tips on how to grow dragon fruit, where to by dragon fruit, and even some tips on the best way to eat dragon fruit, hot cold, or in the pot nine days old! Links will also guide you to the main website of Foodlywise where you can find complete information about dragonfruit cactus and its fruit. As you explore the Foodlywise website and other online dragonfruit websites, you will find that the dragonfruit fruit name is interchangeable with pitaya or also pitahaya fruit (also pitajaya fruit) and sometimes strawberry pear or spelled as one word, strawberrypear. These names are always jumbled up, and we try to keep the tradition alive here too, but dragon fruit is by far the most common name for dragon fruit and the red dragon fruit, but coming in as close seconds pitahaya and pitaya are both common dragonfruit synonyms in English speaking countries. If you want to learn everything there is to know about the dragonfruit cactus and dragonfruit fruit, the dragonfruit pages at Foodlywise.com will introduce you to all aspects of the dragonfruit including health benefits of dragonfruit and where to buy dragonfruit and tips on how to grow dragonfruit cactus (growing dragonfruit cactus can be very rewarding). You can also learn how to eat dragonfruit both dried dragonfruit and fresh dragonfruit.
Dragonfruit
The dragonfruit cactus fruit is perhaps most common as the red dragon fruit (the red dragonfruit cactus fruit has red flesh or red pulp). This is Hylocereus undatus, to be precise. This delectable and nutritious dragonfruit cactus fruit is the fruit of…