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The purple-colored, slightly bitter rind has been used as a vegetable in Yamagata Prefecture [9] [10] or in those northern areas, where the typical recipe calls for stuffing the rind with minced chicken (or pork) flavored with miso. [10] Minor quantities of akebia are shipped to the urban market as a novelty vegetable.
Pitaya usually refers to fruit of the genus Stenocereus, while pitahaya or dragon fruit refers to fruit of the genus Selenicereus (formerly Hylocereus), both in the family Cactaceae. [3] The common name in English – dragon fruit – derives from the leather-like skin and scaly spikes on the fruit exterior.
The fruit contains a sweet soft pulp resembling a white dragon fruit, eaten primarily in Japan as a seasonal delicacy. The rind, with a slight bitter taste, is used as vegetable, stuffed with ground meat and deep-fried. Often eaten fresh, the Akebia fruit is best after it fully opens naturally on the vine. [7]
Experts agree that a diet rich in fruits and veggies is the way to go. Fruits can provide essential nutrients, fiber and a host of other health benefits. If you enjoy fruits frequently, that's great.
Grevillea plurijuga is a prostrate to low-lying or dense mounded to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.6–3 m (2 ft 0 in – 9 ft 10 in) and up to 3.5 m (11 ft) wide.
Dragonfruit stems are scandent (climbing habit), creeping, sprawling or clambering, and branch profusely. There can be four to seven of them, between 5 and 10 m (16 and 33 ft)or longer, with joints from 30 to 120 cm (12 to 47 in) or longer, and 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) thick; with generally three ribs; margins are corneous (horn-like) with age, and undulate.
The species is grown commercially for its yellow fruit, but is also an impressive ornamental climbing vine with perhaps the largest flowers of all cacti. The yellow skinned fruit of S. megalanthus has thorns, unlike the green, red or yellow skinned dragon fruits of S. undatus, S. monacanthus and their cultivated hybrids.
The fruit produced is a pepo and entirely fleshy (making it botanically a berry) and is spherical to ovoid. [3] The outside color of the pepo ranges from dark purple with fine white specks to light yellow. [1] The fruit is 4–7.5 cm in diameter; purple fruits are smaller, weighing around 35 grams, while yellow fruits are closer to 80 grams. [3]