It can sometimes be tough to find prickly pear in traditional grocery stores, but there's one sure way of getting your hands on the fruit: Steaz Prickly Pear Water, the buzziest functional beverage of ...

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 ...

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

STORY: In the hills of Ghaiman in Yemen, farmers are busy harvesting and cleaning the prickly pear. The fruit, which was once a wild and seasonal offering, is now a staple in markets across the ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to create a tool from a giant cane stem to safely harvest thorny prickly pear fruit from the Opuntia cactus. After securing the stem with purple cordage and using ...

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.

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 ...

Lately, we’ve been a little obsessed with this whole state food question. We’ve asked readers (who’ve already narrowed it down) to tell us which they’d choose: Sonoran hot dogs or prickly pear fruit.

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, ...

In parts of Texas, the prickly pear cactus is everywhere — potted outside coffee shops, dotting the side of the road, poking out of cracks in the sidewalk. It also lines the pathways of the University ...

The fruit of the Opuntia Ficus-Indica might be better known as a prickly pear or tunas in Spanish, but Claudia Villalobos, a sales specialist with the farm, prefers cactus pears. The name sounds less ...