Hi there foodies beehive community, hope everyone is safe and doing well. For this content, will be making a Dragon Fruit smoothie. My wife bought a Dragon fruit for 3 dollars or about 150 Php for a 1 kilo. Since it was her rest day I decided to make a smoothie from it. Let me share with the community how simple it is to make a smoothie.
To begin with, we will prepare the basic ingredients which are fortified and condensed milk. Will then slice the Dragon fruit in half, the half-size cut is equal to a glass serving of smoothie because the fruit itself is enough to make 2 glasses of smoothie.
After slicing in half, we'll use a spoon to scope its flesh and put it on the portable blender. By then we will add the fortified and condensed milk together, for this content I only put 50mL for fortified milk and 3 spoons of condensed milk. After that, we're ready to blend the Dragon Fruit.
- It’s rich in antioxidants like flavonoids, phenolic acid, and betacyanin. These natural substances protect your cells from damage by free radicals -- molecules that can lead to diseases like cancer and premature aging.
- It’s naturally fat-free and high in fiber. It makes for a good snack because it can help keep you full for longer between meals.
- It may help lower your blood sugar. Researchers say this might be partly because it replaces damaged cells in your pancreas that make insulin, the hormone that helps your body break down sugar. But the studies were done on mice, not people. It's unclear just how much dragon fruit you'd have to eat to get these benefits.
- It contains prebiotics, which are foods that feed the healthy bacteria called probiotics in your gut. Having more prebiotics in your system can improve the balance of good to bad bacteria in your intestines. Specifically, dragon fruit encourages the growth of the probiotics lactobacilli and bifidobacteria. In your gut, these and other helpful bacteria can kill disease-causing viruses and bacteria. They also help digest food.
- It can strengthen your immune system. Dragon fruit is high in vitamin C and other antioxidants, which are good for your immune system.
- • It can boost your iron levels. Iron is important for moving oxygen through your body and giving you energy, and dragon fruit has iron. And the vitamin C in dragon fruit helps your body take in and use the iron. Source:
