Fruits

Substitutes for Dragon Fruit in gelato

Dragon fruit (pitaya, Hylocereus spp.) is a tropical cactus fruit whose mildly sweet, seed-flecked pulp is about 82% water with roughly 11-12% simple sugars. In gelato it works as a high-water fruit base for vivid magenta or speckled-white sorbets and fruit gelati. If you're out of dragon fruit or need a different profile, these are the closest functional swaps — ranked by how similar they are on the balancing numbers, with the impact of each swap.

Swap ~1:1, then expect only minor balance shifts.

Swap ~1:1, then expect only minor balance shifts.

Swap ~1:1, then expect only minor balance shifts.

Swap ~1:1, then expect only minor balance shifts.

Swap ~1:1, then expect only minor balance shifts.

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