I just had one and was incredibly disappointed it just tasted like a kiwi without any flavor.
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.
I disagree. I’ve only ever had luck with the white ones.
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.
When I ate them in Vietnam they where my favorite fruit forever by far. And the red ones are the best there.
I’ve had a couple of bland ones, and I’ve had a couple of really sweet ones. It’s kind of a toss-up. Kind of like strawberries, some of them are really sweet, others can be tart.
When I had one at home I was disappointed, when I had one in Thailand I was only disappointed about the ones back home.
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.
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.
Dragonfruit lemonade (agua de pitahaya) is delicious!
What “taste”? 🤣
Yes!
Not the red ones but I like yellow dragon fruit
Cheaper (in the US) and sweeter. Better fruit easily
Outside of dragon fruit flavored foods, I have no experience, but it is on my list of exotic* fruits to try one day.
*exotic for where I live
it’s worth the same as a full chicken where I’m from. I tried it twice in my life and my mom was so angry at me for buying it lol
Their taste is subtle/bland for me, but not similar to kiwi. Only the texture is vaguely similar.
(I have a few dragonfruit plants at home, grown from the seed, but… just because I like cactuses. They need to get huge before producing fruits.)
The ones I ate in Thailand were delicious and very refreshing
You need to get them in countries that grow them. They are a little sweet and very juicy.
I’ve done this and still only gotten lucky like 1/20th of the time. Very hard to tell when they’re ripe and flavourful
The only time I’ve had it was when a driver brought my department a pallet of it and we were told to take as much as we want. What little flavor it had was good. I’d like to try it closer to wherever it grows sometime.
