There were a half dozen or so around loaded like this one.
As a kid we used to cut the fruit open and eat the flesh. If I can get enough i may try to make some jelly.
There were a half dozen or so around loaded like this one.
As a kid we used to cut the fruit open and eat the flesh. If I can get enough i may try to make some jelly.
Here the pads, or leaves are also eaten. They are called nopal. According to wikipedia almost all of the species’ pads. No idea about the fruit, I learned about eating them from Navajo friends growing up, we picked them on and around the playground at school. As far as I remember we just picked whatever, I had no idea there were so many different species until a couple years ago.
Is the inside similar to aloe vera?
I have not actually eaten nopales, I see then growing all the time, and in the store. Not I have no idea how to actually prepare them. Maybe next summer I will learn.