500g - Fresh Produce
Product Code: FR01
Price: £5.99
Note: The cut off date for placing your fresh products order will be Wednesday, with delivery scheduled for the following Wednesday. This is because all our fresh food in flown in directly from Thailand on a weekly basis to ensure you get the freshest possible products.
Dragon Fruit/Pitahaya (500g)
Thai Name: Kaew mank gorn / แก้วมังกร
It comes in two colours. The white fleshed variety has a slightly citrus flavour and the deep red fleshed fruit has a mild sweet taste, both are speckled with tiny black seeds, this fruit is unlike any other fruit, and is the perfect addition to any exotic tropical fruit salad.
The fruit's shape and color are impressive with fruit weight between 200-500 grams in general. The fruit contains minerals, dietary fiber and vitamins with mild sweet and slightly sour taste. After cut open, the white pulp has numerous impregnated seeds of sesame look. It helps improving glucose control in humans with non-insulin-dependent hyperglycemic conditions and reducing the blood levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol, and low - density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Scientific Name - Hylocereus triangularis.
Fresh produce of Thailand.