Dragon fruit: A review of health benefits and nutritional importance
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چکیده
The dragon fruit, also known as pitaya, is an exotic tropical plant with numerous health benefits due to its high nutritional value and bioactive components, which include powerful natural antioxidants. Extracts from fruit stems, blooms, peels, pulps have a variety of therapeutic biological effects against pathogenic microbes such bacteria, fungus, viruses, well disorders diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, cancer. Dragon extracts exhibit cardiovascular hepatoprotective benefits, potential prebiotic characteristics. Its cultivation suited climates favourable climate conditions for the development pitaya plantations, are very adaptable tolerable wide range environmental (e.g. salinity adaptation, favour light intensity, drought resistance, etc.).
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pharma innovation
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2277-7695', '2349-8242']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/tpi.2023.v12.i1d.18005