Dragon fruit farming by-products as an important source of several glycosylated flavonoids.

Plants are globally used as an alternative for conventional drugs in treatment of many diseases. A significant proportion of medicinal properties of plants is addressed to antioxidant constituents as flavonoids and phenolic acids. The genus Selenicereus, known as dragon fruit, has about 15 species of epiphytic or hemiepiphytic cactus with hotspots in the tropical region of Mexico.