[Seasonal Recipe] Dragon Fruit for a Cooling Pearl Beverage in summer

　　Every July to December is the dragon fruit season. Bright red dragon fruits can be found on the stands in markets or supermarkets. And in the scorching weather, a plate of cooling dragon fruit from the fridge is the greatest enjoyment.
　　There are various ways to enjoy dragon fruits, eating them directly, juicing them up for a special beverage or pairing it with shaved ice. Today we learn a different way , simple and fast to make dragon fruit a cooling juice, both kids and adults would love!

　　Sometimes in summer, it is usual to crave for a glass of hand-shaken drink to quench the thirst. You will learn to make chewy dragon fruit pearl juice, which takes only half an hour to finish such an eye catching summer beverage.
　　

Add milk to the finished dragon fruit pearls and top some fresh mango and dragon fruit cubes. It is as tasty as beverages sold in beverage shops. How fresh and healthy! If you don't like corn starch, you can replace it with lotus root powder, which makes the dragon fruit pearls tasty as well.

Dragon fruits, both the red or white pulp, are rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers, polyphenols and phytochemicals such as anthocyanin, high in nutritional values. Many kinds of its vitamins and phytochemicals are anti oxidant and anti free radical. According to researches conducted by Changhua University of Education, the anthocyanin contains in the red pulp fruit is 15 times more than that in cherries and 28 times more than that of imported grapes. Its anti free radical content is yield to none!