How to Use dragon fruit in a Sentence

dragon fruit

noun
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  • In reality, all types of dragon fruit are high in fiber.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The pink dragon fruit with red flesh is the highest in betalains, which can reduce bad cholesterol.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Lots of egg bites, a whole wheat canapé with speck, mango coconut chia with dragon fruit cream, and an Apple Park crespelle.
    — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The out-of-this-world slushy is flavored with cotton candy and dragon fruit and topped with white soft serve and blue and purple galaxy sprinkles.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Other bowls omit acai like the Superfruit Pitaya with dragon fruit and blueberry and the Blue Hawaii with almond milk, dates and coconut butter.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • The Pink Drink is made with Angostura white rum, coconut cream, dragon fruit syrup, demerara and lime.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • New places to eat and drink are popping up at Rea Farms this year, giving shoppers and South Charlotte foodies the chance to sip on a dragon fruit tea or slurp up steaming broth and noodles.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Each drink flight includes three-ounce pours of the eatery’s classic, dragon fruit and coconut-pineapple margaritas.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • There are also iced tea options and energy drinks with unique flavors such as desert pear, dragon fruit, peach, ube, lavender and coconut.
    — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
  • The 30-year-old is a fourth-generation pineapple, dragon fruit and pumpkin farmer from Wamuran, Queensland.
    — Keryn Donnelly, refinery29.com, 20 May 2024
  • There are three flavors of the Spicy Lemonade Refreshers — dragon fruit, pineapple and strawberry — and each gets its heat from combining a spicy chili powder blend with lemonade.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
  • Housed in the Old Post Office building by the Mall, the restaurant serves small bites crafted with care and unparalleled attention to detail (dragon fruit ceviche, octopus, and olives that melt in your mouth, to name a few).
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 29 June 2023
  • The short but intriguing beverage menu includes cold Java jasmine tea, red-ginger tea and fruit juices in flavors of soursop, passion fruit and dragon fruit.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The farm also grows ice cream beans, persimmons, pomegranates, passion fruit, dragon fruit, cherimoyas and caviar limes in soil that has become more fertile from the biodiversity of crops.
    — Julie Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Energy comes in dragon fruit, lemon and strawberry banana flavors.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Or stroll my little residential enclave, where people are sitting on their stoops, a guy is working on his ’68 Camaro, trees are heavy with citrus, softball-size dragon fruits shine redly through a fence.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Examples included the Naked passion fruit, mango and guava smoothie, which has 62% apple juice, and an Innocent pink dragon fruit and lychee drink, made from 70% apple juice.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The new drink includes flavors of cotton candy and dragon fruit, according to Sonic, with the all-black slush representing the temporary darkness from the solar eclipse and is topped with white soft serve and blue and purple galaxy themed sprinkles.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Other newcomers specialize in vegan tacos on dragon fruit tortillas, or both sweet and savory choux pastries.
    — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the fruits included in our gift basket were cherimoya, kumquats, Asian pear, dragon fruit, passion fruit, mini bananas, feijoas, baby pineapples, papaya, and guava.
    — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Keep an eye out for intriguing ingredients that lend Jungle Ballroom some real mixology street cred, like longan and dragon fruit, and a bespoke Cambodian gin made exclusively for the bar.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2024
  • The nursery is also selling other vegetable plants for spring home gardens, including herbs, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, beans, lettuce, strawberries and dragon fruit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The ultra-lightweight cream is formulated with antioxidant-rich dragon fruit extract, softening prickly pear seed oil, and shine-boosting meadowfoam seed oil.
    — Rebecca Norris, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023

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