Dragon fruit

To most people this will be an unknown and possibly untried fruit. We eat it occasionally. It comes from the northern part of Australia.

Dragon fruit, also known as pitaya or the strawberry pear, is a beautiful tropical fruit that is sweet and crunchy. The plant the fruit comes from is actually a type of cactus. Native to Central and South America, it's also grown in Florida and marketed as American Beauty.

You can enjoy eating it in fruit salads, it can be used to create tasty drinks and desserts, and it is a wonderful, healthy snack on its own.

The flesh has a subtly flavoured sweet taste or sometimes slightly sourish taste. The flesh is either white or red, with edible black seeds. We only get the white flesh variety here in South Australia.