Round your eyes in amazement with a rainbow of 7 colors rainbow in Mexico

Not only is it unique, this dragon fruit is also full of colors that look beautiful and attractive.

Dragon fruit is a fruit that is abundant in Vietnam, but you have only seen dragon fruits with two colors, white and red, before. Therefore, when you see this beautiful dragon fruit in Mexico, there are many people who love it and want to enjoy it immediately.

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Pitaya dragon fruit.

This particular type of dragon fruit of Mexico is called Pitaya , this is a very popular fruit in Jalisco state and a few other states, but according to Mexicans and tourists, Pitaya in Jalisco is good The most juicy country.

Pitaya has a trunk similar to a desert cactus, also with the same family of popular dragon fruit trees in Vietnam but has more spines. In particular, this kind of Pitaya tree has very beautiful flowers. After the rotten flowers, the fruit of Pitaya will gradually grow and ripen.

Pitaya is a seasonal fruit, each such Pitaya season lasts only about 7-8 weeks, usually starting from late April to June every year, when the first rains appear, Pitaya also catches The head appears full of trees.

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Pitaya is a seasonal fruit.

Pitaya is characterized only to be preserved for 2 days so in order not to be sold when sold, farmers have to harvest Pitaya since early morning. At this time, it was so dark that it was necessary to use the lights to pick up each fruit to make it sell in the day.

A special feature of the Pitaya dragon fruit is that the outside is covered with a spiky layer . Therefore, the work of harvesting Pitaya is not easy. Because Pitaya trees are quite high, sometimes farmers have to use long poles to pick. And after picking it down, they had to use a knife to remove the outer layer of thorns and then put them into a basket lined with soft lintils and brought them to the market.

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Outside Pitaya dragon fruit is covered with a thorny layer.

As mentioned above, the most attractive point of Pitaya is its eye-catching color . More diverse than popular dragon fruits in Vietnam, Pitaya has many attractive colors such as white, purple pink, magenta, orange. And inside the intestine of Pitaya fruit, there are still many small black seeds like dragon fruit. In addition, the outer shell of Pitaya also often has many colors from light to dark so when placing Pitaya on the shelves, Pitaya has caught the eye from a distance when you see it.

Pitaya is recognized as a fruit rich in fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants so it is very popular with Mexican people. In particular, in addition to eating fresh as dragon fruit, Pitaya is also used by Mexicans as a raw material in the processing of traditional cakes, Western cakes or delicious drinks. And with the eye-catching colors of Pitaya, these cakes and drinks all increase attractiveness many times.

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Pitaya is a fruit rich in fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants .

The beautiful little Pitaya dragon fruit in colorful like 7 rainbow colors is really beautiful and indescribable. Therefore, when you arrive in Mexico in April - June, remember to ignore this excessively attractive fruit.