A night of holiday-party drinking doesn't have to be painful the next morning, thanks to a common desert plant. The fruit of the prickly pear cactus is a lean, mean hangover-fighting machine. Grown in ...

Soothing teas, fizzy drinks and little pills all claim to fix what ails you after a night of heavy drinking. But Dr. Jeffrey Wiese, who last week reported that prickly pear cactus could reduce some ...

Cactus fruit is rich in betanin, polyphenols and other potent antioxidants that support liver health, protect against heart disease and reduce inflammation.

Good news for anyone who has ever had that queasy feeling the morning after tying one on: A study has found that an extract of prickly pear cactus can prevent a severe hangover. Prickly pear cactus ...

This fruit often is described as a cross between a watermelon and bubblegum, and can be found on the side of Southwestern highways. It's the prickly pear. The fruit and its nopales (the fleshy, ...

Prickly pear fruit (and pads) is just one of many wild desert foods long used by Indigenous people. If you are harvesting prickly pear fruit this year, do so with respect, leaving fruit on the cactus ...

Seasonal fruit beers will soon start to hit shelves and taps, and I am hoping to see prickly pear beers among them. Last fall, I made my own prickly pear juice — sweet, with a strangely distinctive ...

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.