CACTUS PEAR HOW TO
Now you know how to eat prickly pear cactus fruit. Now all you need to do is slice up that fruit.
CACTUS PEAR SKIN
You can easily compost the skin or throw it away. You should now be able to peel the skin off of the fruit no problem. Then slice the fruit lengthwise, about 1/8th to 1/4th of an inch deep. Cut the tops and bottom of the prickly pear off. Although the skin is edible, I always remove it to be safe, that is a sure way of not eating any spines. So make sure to remove them! And don’t bite into one with thorns, the last thing you want are thorns stuck on the inside of your mouth. If the thorns get stuck in your skin, they are really hard to get out. One way to remove the spines, is to wear leather gloves and then roll or rub the prickly pear in paper towel, or a clean cloth. If you buy them from the supermarket, they should already be removed, but still be careful, they sometimes miss some of them. Now I will show you how to eat prickly pear cactus fruit.įirst, if taken from the wild, you will notice there are several very sharp thorns/spines in the skin, that must be removed before handling them.
Cactus fruit are high in vitamin C, Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium.
CACTUS PEAR FULL
Full of antioxidants, with the deep purple ones containing the most antioxidants.Some of the health benefits for prickly pear cactus fruit are: What are the health benefits of prickly pear cactus fruit? I probably left a few countries out, they are widespread across the world. They can be found in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the Middle East among other places. The fruit they produce is commonly called tuna in Mexico, and Prickly pear here in the United States. They grow really well in Mexico, which makes sense because they originated in the Americas. We even have them growing on the side of the streets in town here where I live. They grow natively in hot arid climates, for example, they grow very well here in Arizona and the other South Western States. The purple ones and the greenish-yellow ones. On to the information! Where do prickly pear come from and where do they grow?įirst of all, there are two main colors or types of prickly pear cactus fruit. If you enjoy tasting new fruits, this is a awesome little fruit to try. In this article, you will learn where prickly pear comes from, what the health benefits of prickly pear are, and how to eat prickly pear and what they taste like. Have you ever wondered how to eat a prickly pear cactus fruit? The true name is Opuntia, the common names are Prickly pear, cactus fruit, cactus pear, cactus fig, tuna (fruit not the fish), sabra, and nopal.
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