Pitaya, a colourful and natural
superfood

Pitaya is also known as dragon-fruit, night-flower, jelly-fruit and night-queen. There are three varieties of pitaya: fuchsia peel with white flesh, fuchsia peel and flesh, and yellow peel with white flesh. They all have small and very abundant black seeds in the pulp.

Colombia and Mexico are the world's largest producers of pitaya. However, despite being native to Mexico, Central and South America, it is a fruit planted even in Asia.

Pitaya is nicknamed a "superfood" because of its nutritional benefits. Its properties are very varied and include a generous dose of vitamin C and antioxidants, for example.

Pitaya can be grown in dry areas and on poor soils and therefore its plantation boosts the use of land that cannot be used for more demanding plantations. If we think about climate change and the increasing lack of water, a fruit as undemanding as pitaya becomes very promising.