Pitaya is an excellent fruit for weight loss. It contains abundant minerals that can effectively eliminate toxins accumulated in the intestines, help digest food, and also provides a rich source of minerals and vitamins to supply the nutrients needed by the body. Below, the editor of "Slimming Men and Women" will introduce several ways to prepare pitaya to enrich your daily recipes.
1. **Pitaya Shrimp Recipe**
- Ingredients: 100g shrimp, 200g pitaya, starfruit, celery, and appropriate amount of salt.
- Method: Hollow out the pitaya and set aside, marinate the shrimp with salt for a while. Heat oil in a pan and stir-fry the shrimp. Add the pitaya and starfruit, stir-fry, season with salt until cooked, and sprinkle with celery before serving.
- Benefits: Promotes digestion, aids in weight loss, lowers blood sugar, reduces blood pressure, moisturizes the intestines, and helps prevent colon cancer.
2. **Pitaya Salad Recipe**
- Ingredients: 180g pitaya, 25g lemon salad dressing, 50g orange juice.
- Method: Peel the pitaya, remove the flesh, cut into cubes, and place in a container. Drizzle orange juice around the pitaya, then pour lemon salad dressing over it before serving.
- Benefits: Deliciously refreshing, helps reduce fat and promote bowel movements. It is also effective for treating fullness in the stomach caused by dampness.
3. **Pitaya Glutinous Rice Cake Recipe**
- Ingredients: 1 pitaya, 8 dried plums, 150g cucumber chunks, 200g glutinous rice cake, and appropriate amount of honey.
- Method: Peel the pitaya and cut it into chunks. Remove the pits from the dried plums. Place the cucumber chunks and glutinous rice cake in the pitaya container, add honey, and serve.
- Benefits: Stimulates appetite, aids digestion, and is rich in nutrition. Excellent for weight loss.
**Tips:**
Pitaya can be divided into three categories:
- White Pitaya: Purple-red skin, white flesh with small black seeds distributed throughout. The fresh quality is average.
- Red Pitaya: Red skin, red flesh, and better fresh quality.
- Yellow Pitaya: Yellow skin, white flesh, and the best fresh quality.
Pitaya is rich in minerals, anthocyanins, and water-soluble dietary fiber. Anthocyanins have antioxidant properties, and the plant protein contained in pitaya has heavy metal detoxification functions. Every 100 grams of pitaya fruit contains 60 calories, slightly higher than apples, but its vitamin C content is three times that of apples.
Pitaya juice has certain effects in inhibiting tumor growth, suppressing viruses, relieving heavy metal poisoning, fighting free radicals, preventing constipation and colon cancer, lowering cholesterol, benefiting skin whitening, and aiding in weight loss.
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