LANGUAGE TRAINING CENTRE

UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA

UJIAN TENGAH SEMESTER
SEMESTER GENAP 2017/2018

ESSAY WRITING

Name : ZAKI TIFANNI LAZUARDIAN Date of Test : 31 MARCH 2018

Student Number : 20160350055 Lecturer : MR ALVAN BASTONI
Faculty : FKIK Signature :
Department : PHARMACY

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THE AMAZING DRAGON FRUIT

In the last century, there are so many people who ignored the importance of healthy living, we don’t realize if we ignored
healthy life will be many diseases theat threaten us. Disease does not know who you are or where you came from, as long as your
life is unhealthy. Diseases will surely hit you someday, because of that, lets us start to life healty. We starts with a simple things such
as consume some fruits. For example we can consume dragon fruits. Because this fruits have so many advantages to help us more
healthy. As you know health is very important for everyone. A healt body will support us so that it can run all the routines and daily
activities. Therefore, many people are willing to spend a lot of money to get physically healthy.
Dragon fruit is one of the most popular fruit in indonesia. In taxonomy dragon fruit is a type of cactus. In latin dragon fruit well
known as phitahaya. It’s original habitat in dry area. This fruit come from mexico, central america and south America. However,
its development this fruit can already be found in various Asian countries. Its spread includes Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia,
Vietnam , Singapore including Indonesia.
Dragon fruit has a rounded oval look like a pineapple and srikaya. It has a pink fin with generally pink color adorned with scales
like a dragon. Its trunk shaped like a triangle and and grows attached to the wood media. The trunk has short spines and is not sharp.
The flowers are like clean white trumpets, consisting of a number of yellow stamens. Dragon fruit has several variants, including: 1.
White dragon fruit (Hylocereus undatus): The skin is red and the flesh is white. The trunk is dark green. 2. Red dragon fruit
(Hylocereus polyrhizus): The skin is red and the flesh is red purple.
Dragon fruit should be split until the flesh is visible when it will be consumed. While it may seems a little strange at first. It.s
easy to get to the fruit. Simply slice leghtwise and either scoop out the flesh, or quarter it and peel back the leathery skin. Eat only
the white part with seeds, removing any residual pink parts, which are bitter. Fruit soft texture surrounded by small seeds fruit. The
flesh feels a bit sweet when eaten and has a low calorie content. The seeds should be chewed because it is difficult to digest by the
body but safe for consumption, In addition to eating directly, dragon fruit can also be processed into various forms of food and
beverages like soup, salad, juice and smoothies. Processing dragon fruit is also very easy we can process it into juice with three
steps, put in the red dragon fruit that has been peeled, mint leaves, syrup, sugar and chopped ice into a blender. then blend until
thickened. after thickening pour into a glass and serve juice while its cold.
Besides delicious consumed dragon fruit has many benefits for our body because it has many ingredients such as vitamins and
antioxidants. doctors also suggest red dragon fruit as a fruit consumption which can be used for diabetes therapy. one of the vitamins
contained in dragon fruit is vitamin c and antioxidants. Vitamin c and antioxidants useful to beautify appearance by maintaining skin
health, even the fruit and skin can be used as a scrub.
Having healthy lifestyle is what you make it. It’s not as hard and expensive as people say. It just people having to change habits
and get used to eating healthier, eating healthy taking dragon fruit its simple way to make body healt and exercising are all part of
maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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