I just had one and was incredibly disappointed it just tasted like a kiwi without any flavor.
Dragonfruit is delicious, but this depends heavily on where you get it. Most non-tropical markets get imported dragonfruit that was picked too early and shipped/stored over long periods, resulting a relatively bland taste and drier texture. Ripe, fresh dragonfruit is lovely. It’s in my top 5 fruits personally.
Dragonfruit lemonade (agua de pitahaya) is delicious!
I’d say it looks more exciting than it tastes.
I had no idea that they look like Oreo cookie ice cream on the inside! Now I really want to try one.
Dragon Fruit is disappointing. Everything about it visually makes it look like it has this strong amazing taste, but it’s pretty bland in flavour for a fruit.
They should call it deception fruit then.
Edit: or firepants fruit, since it looks like flames and is a liar liar.
It’s a great addition to smoothies tho, get the nutrients without it affecting the taste too much.
Its fine. It tastes like under ripe lychee.
Yes!
They’re fine, it’s basically a bigger and watered down kiwi
The similarities easily put it in my top 5
They only ripen while attached to the cactus. Best is when the scales/tentacles turn slightly brown. Once you pick it the flavor can only degrade. Grocery stores always have them picked too soon because the outside looks better but it will guaranteed taste like dirt.
But even optimally ripe, at best it’s just a big kiwi with different colour and not even very different texture. Some ever so slight difference between colours but I doubt most people could tell. I had red with white inside, red with red inside, and yellow with white inside. The yellow exterior is a different shape too.
Source: jumped through MAD hoops to grow them in a tent indoors. They all died after the second harvest but the ones that never fruited in the bay window are still going.
I’ve only had it in juice form and it’s okay… It tastes the same to me as melted red Jell-O. I won’t go out of my way for it or nothin’, but I’m not gonna turn it down if offered, either.
The inside of the fruit looks like it should taste like cookies and cream, tho.
You need the red ones with the purple flesh, not the pink with white flesh. The red have much more flavor
If you eat the whole thing you may have red diarrhea and assume you are dying. You are not
You’ll even piss pink and wonder if you caught something nasty.
I apology for giving you the pink piss.
It’s alright, but hardly worth the price, IMO. It’s too expensive to eat on its own, and its flavor is too weak to really go with anything else.
I’m trying to grow some because I love them but they’re so expensive. I’ve found their seeds readily germinate, and they grow really quickly. Will probably be a couple years before it fruits, but I’m down for the long game. They’re basically cactus vines, which I did not know before I started growing them
I like the taste, but I don’t like the price.
Taste-wise, they taste like pretty much all the cactus fruits I’ve tried so far. There’s not a whole lot of flavor to them, just a balanced sweetness (when they’re ripe), but not overwhelming sweetness. At least in my part of the world, prickly pears are more cost effective and very similar in terms of taste, but for some reason, less often available.
To me, one of the appeals of cactus fruits is the texture from the slight crunchiness of the seeds, which is a good balance to the consistency of the fruit. Also nice that there’s typically not a lot of tartness or bitterness. I like tartness and bitterness in some fruits, but these are a nice change of pace.
Overall, if they were cheap, I’d be eating them a lot more. These epiphytic cacti are fairly easy to grow and bloom as house plants, even in temperate climates, so if you do really enjoy them, it’s something you could potentially grow yourself. And obviously if you live in a tropical to subtropical climate, you can probably get away with growing them outdoors.
When they are ripe, especially the red skin/red flesh ones or the yellow skin ones, are really good. Problem is most of them sold in the US are very mediocre and tasteless. (Tbh that’s true for most fruits, peaches or melons or most fruit I find here are in the supermarket are terribly bland).
I get the better tasting ripe ones in Asian grocers or in Chinatown, I usually follow and ask Asian aunties and grandmas, they know where the best stuff is. But red skin/white flesh is usually disappointing unless you are really lucky, so try the others.
They are supposed to be a little sweet and not completely bland. It could be possible that yours wasn’t fully ripe, maybe.
They only taste good when eaten close to where they grow. Probably within hours or very few days of picking them ripe from the plant.
The Taste is 100% different.
Surprisingly this is also a bit the case with bananas. But the export bananas at least taste ok in their different way. Exported Dragonfuit however taste like nothing and are only bought to look exotic but definitely not worth the taste.
I still think the dragon fruit we get imported in the US can be pretty tasty. Not the same as when I had it in Taiwan, but still tasty.
Like you’re talking about, it’s the same with other imported fruits like mangos. To be honest, even fruits like strawberries are pretty bland when you get them in the supermarket, compared to fresh picked. But sometimes you just want to nom a whole thing of strawberries. It’s how I feel about dragon fruit.
sometimes you just want to nom a whole thing of strawberries
So true. Where I live during the summer you have folks selling locally grown strawberries at the side of the road. Sometimes I’m driving along with the kids and we’ll buy way too many strawberries for very reasonable money and then just… nom a whole thing of strawberries.
Nom nom nom nom nom.
Not long now! I can practically smell them.
When I ate them in Vietnam they where my favorite fruit forever by far. And the red ones are the best there.
