If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size cactus ...

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I show you how to prepare and eat cactus fruit also known as prickly pear, cactus pear, tuna fruit, opuntia, nopal. They come mainly in two different ...

Eat cactus? For people living in Mexico and the Southwest, the answer is a resounding yes. Nopal, also known as the prickly pear cactus, grows plentifully there and its health benefits and versatility ...

Like their name implies, prickly pears can be a thorny fruit to deal with. They’re covered in tiny needles, chock-full of hard seeds and their juice can stain everything it touches a shocking magenta ...

We are approaching peak prickly pear season. Based on the prickly pear fruit she can see in her neighborhood, Sonya Norman gives it another week or two before the fruit is really ready for harvest.

Summer is a good time to reflect on one of our common West Texas native plants, the prickly pear cactus. The name cactus is derived from the Greek word kaktos, which means “prickly plant.” Like all ...

Magnesium is a mineral that's needed for important processes such as nerve function, blood pressure and blood sugar regulation, bone health maintenance, and more. Your daily magnesium needs depend on ...

As Rodolfo Martinez-Mota well knows, from the cactus spines in his clothes and skin, white-throated woodrats love to eat prickly pear cactus (from the Opuntia genus). They like the cactus so much that ...

The prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) is the fruit of the Opuntia cactus, also called nopal cactus. In botanical terms, the small, plump prickly pear is, in fact, a berry, measuring 2 to 5 inches, ...