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Therapeutic value of Dragon Fruits: an overview
Saptarshi Mukherjee, Prathiksa Pramanik, Aishwarya Nair and Moumita Banerjee*
Abstract
Dragon fruits are defined as medicinal fruit from the ancient times by Maya civilization. The flower and fruits of dragon fruits are very much effective to prevent health issues including this fruit is functioned as hypoglycemic, wound sanitizers and also it is diuretic fruit. In addition to that, flowers and seeds of dragon fruit are utilised as beverages for healing gastritis, act as a laxative and upgraded the symptoms of kidney disorders. Furthermore, in case of dysentery it is functional as the healing fruit, apart from that, it is a healing fruit. Dragon fruits species like Hylocereus polyrhizus, Hylocene undatus, and red pitaya provide enormous health benefits like anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antimicrobial activity. Besides that, skin of this species is effective in hexane, chloroform and ethanol extract promote good impact upon the development of gram positive and gram-negative microbes at minimum hindering concentration of 50L like Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa on human health. In accordance with Hübner, 2019 pulp and ginger amalgamation in secondary fermentation mechanism develop beers have great antioxidant status and carries supreme organoleptic attributes in comparison with normal marketed beer.
Keywords
Dragon fruits, health benefits, fruit pulp, kidney disorders, antioxidant, functional foods.
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Mukherjee, S., Pramanik, P., Nair, A. and Banerjee, M. 2024. Therapeutic value of Dragon Fruits: an overview. Chronicle of Aquatic Science 1(8): 10-15. 
 
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