Wow, Dragonfruit actually have a smell? I've been missing out then, with the bought ones! I would say that if I had home grown ones I probably wouldn't want to spoil them by mixing them in with the skins either. I've bought a few from local markets and they don't taste that much better than the supermarket varieties. I've only tried the red-skinned ones (both white and red flesh) - I believe the yellow ones are much tastier but have yet to find them for sale anywhere locally.
The only reason I pureed the skins in the first place was to try to disguise the taste. They are almost inedible if you eat them whole but mixing them with the fruit flesh adds some sweetness (if no flavour in my case) and mixing them up in muesli further disguises it to the point where you don't notice the flavour much.
Very good question why the bought ones taste so poor. Maybe it's too much effort to fertilise them properly and they just use the bear minimum needed to get the fruit to marketable size? Given that they start to spoil on the supermarket shelf they probably aren't the freshest either as you say.
The dragonfruit itself doesn't give me energy so much as it gives me motivation. I might see something and decide it's too much effort I'll do it later, but with dragonfruit in my system my attitude tends to change to one more along the lines of "might as well get that done now while I'm here". The difference is pretty subtle though. It's more of a "mood improver" than anything else. In the evening if I look back at what I did that day, the days I had dragonfruit for brekky seem to be the ones I got more stuff done. But you still have to be careful to have the right kind of jobs ready - more than a few times my "productivity" ended up being watching a whole bunch of TV episodes before I noticed how much time I had wasted
I think your mother was on to something with a high energy breakfast though. I had to give up eating sugar a couple of years ago as it was really badly affecting my mood - so bad that not even dragonfruit would have helped. But while cutting that out made a huge improvement to my quality of life (once I'd gotten over the withdrawal symptoms, which were actually quite bad) I noticed a big drop in my energy levels, and it took a good six months to get used to it. But having a really good breakfast helped a lot, so oats and pawpaw would definitely be on my list, especially if the pawpaw was home grown
The only reason I pureed the skins in the first place was to try to disguise the taste. They are almost inedible if you eat them whole but mixing them with the fruit flesh adds some sweetness (if no flavour in my case) and mixing them up in muesli further disguises it to the point where you don't notice the flavour much.
Very good question why the bought ones taste so poor. Maybe it's too much effort to fertilise them properly and they just use the bear minimum needed to get the fruit to marketable size? Given that they start to spoil on the supermarket shelf they probably aren't the freshest either as you say.
The dragonfruit itself doesn't give me energy so much as it gives me motivation. I might see something and decide it's too much effort I'll do it later, but with dragonfruit in my system my attitude tends to change to one more along the lines of "might as well get that done now while I'm here". The difference is pretty subtle though. It's more of a "mood improver" than anything else. In the evening if I look back at what I did that day, the days I had dragonfruit for brekky seem to be the ones I got more stuff done. But you still have to be careful to have the right kind of jobs ready - more than a few times my "productivity" ended up being watching a whole bunch of TV episodes before I noticed how much time I had wasted
I think your mother was on to something with a high energy breakfast though. I had to give up eating sugar a couple of years ago as it was really badly affecting my mood - so bad that not even dragonfruit would have helped. But while cutting that out made a huge improvement to my quality of life (once I'd gotten over the withdrawal symptoms, which were actually quite bad) I noticed a big drop in my energy levels, and it took a good six months to get used to it. But having a really good breakfast helped a lot, so oats and pawpaw would definitely be on my list, especially if the pawpaw was home grown
I know I shouldn't judge.......
