Our Dragon Fruits are grown in the fertile lands of Guatemala and shipped to our customers safely with all the freshness and flavor of our land. Guatemala has it all! Chilled fruits are cut into slices and consumed fresh. The flesh is often blended with water, ice, and sugar to make a refreshing fruit drink Fruit slices are used in fruit salads or as garnish for desserts, ice cream, and cocktails. Entire fruits are boiled with sugar to make a thick syrup for desserts and sweets. Unopened flower buds are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The reddish-purple juice of species with red pulp is used as a natural food coloring. Dragon fruit may look exotic, but its flavors are similar to other fruits. Its taste has been described as a slightly sweet cross between a kiwi and a pear.
Gulupa is a perennial, semi-woody, vine-like plant with great vegetative vigor. Its structure is determined by the main stem from which numerous lateral branches are derived. Its coloration is a homogeneous bright purple with a round and firm shape. Its flavor is bittersweet and refreshing with an intense and exotic aroma.
Benefits for you health: Its main components are vitamins A, B1, B2, B3 and ascorbic acid. It is a source of calcium fiber, phosphorus, iron, protein and magnesium, This fruit can be used to help you sleep. The leaves contain alkaloids that are used to lower blood pressure. Iy also help improve digestive functions.
Harvest practices
The gulupa fruits are taken directly from the plant. Fruits that have fallen should not be collected to avoid generating contamination with microorganisms edaphic; you must try to have adequate conditions hygiene when handling the product, using gloves to avoid damaging its shell and minimize handling contamination.
The product is collected in plastic baskets of 60 x 40 x 25 cm and with a capacity of 15 kg, avoiding pressure between the fruits. In the collection centers the product is received, its classification in smooth, clean and disinfected countertops. Storage should be done in disinfected baskets to avoid contamination that later affects the quality of the fruit.
Dragon fruit (also known as pitaya or pitahaya) is a vibrant and exotic fruit from the cactus family. Beneath the colorful rind is a succulent bright white or red fruit that contains small edible black seeds. Its subtle sweetness and slightly acidic flavor are similar to that of a melon or kiwi.
Different varieties of dragon fruit will have pink, red, or yellow skin with green-tipped scales. Look for shiny, even-colored skin.
Benefits for your health: High content of antioxidants, calcium, vitamins B and C, iron, protein and fiber; Dragon fruit is as healthy as it is delicious. Like other superfoods, dragon fruit can:
- Prevention of cancer-causing free radicals
- Improve digestion
- Promotes memory and sight.
- Strengthen bones and teeth
- Lower levels of bad cholesterol
Granadilla belongs to the passion fruit family. It is circular in shape, weighs between 110 and 125gr and has a diameter between 5 and 7.5cms. The rind is strong, thick and smooth orange in color. The pulp consists of small black, edible seeds covered with a juicy, crystalline, transparent and jelly-like mass. Its flavor is sweet and has a pleasant aroma.
Benefits for your health:
The passion fruit is an excellent source of potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron and fiber. It helps provide essential vitamins for the body such as vitamin B1, B2, C and provitamin A. It also contains protein and carbohydrates.
The consumption of granadilla is recommended for the stabilization of the nerves, since it works as a sedative or natural tranquilizer. Its juice is used as a digestive stimulant, it also controls acidity and helps ulcers heal.
Pitahaya or yellow dragon fruit, native to Central America, is an ovoid-shaped fruit with some bumps, yellow at maturity, with small edible black seeds covered with a transparent sweet pulp.
Dragon fruit is a hydrating fruit with high nutritional value.
Advantage:
The amounts of B vitamins it contains help reduce cholesterol levels. Regular consumption, within a balanced diet, helps fight memory loss. By assisting in the absorption of iron in food, dragon fruit helps strengthen bones, teeth, and red blood cells.
Helps fight infection and has antioxidant characteristics. It also reduces the level of uric acid in the blood, preventing gout and has also been know for its laxative effect.
Benefits for you health:
The Pitahaya has a high nutritional value, It contains antioxidants, mucicles, ascorbic acid, phenols and is rich in vitamin C, B , as well as minerals such as calium, phosphorus, iron, and has a high content of water and vegetable protein and soluble fiber. Its seeds contain benefical fatty acids. One of its most outstanding properties is its anti.inflamatory and antioxidant action.
The passionflower fruit is an oval or round berry, between 4 and 10 cm in diameter, fibrous and juicy, covered with a thick, waxy, delicate and inedible rind. The pulp has a lot of little seeds. The color presents great differences between varieties; the most frequent in the countries of origin is yellow, but, due to its superior visual appeal, the red, intense orange or purple fruit is usually exported to European and North American markets.
Benefits for your health:
This fruit is a good source of provitamin A, vitamin C, and minerals like potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. Vitamin A is essential for the skin, hair, mucous membranes, bones, vision and the immune system. Vitamin C favors the absorption of iron and is essential in the formation of bones, red blood cells, collagen and teeth.
