Can you eat the fruit of a cactus, can you eat a cactus fruit

"Cactus" is often seen, but have you ever eaten its fruit? How about the taste.

You can eat it. It can clear away heat and detoxify, dissipate stasis and reduce swelling, strengthen the stomach and relieve pain, and suppress cough. It is used for gastric and duodenal ulcers, acute dysentery, cough; External use for the treatment of mumps, mastitis, carbuncles, swelling and poison, snake bites, burns.

**: 3 10,000 yuan per plant. However, the thorn contains poisonous juice, and after the human body is stabbed, it is easy to cause allergic symptoms such as redness, swelling, pain, and itching.

No***. In every 100 grams of edible cactus, which contains about 220 micrograms of vitamin A, 16 milligrams of vitamin C, grams of protein, and milligrams of iron, it can produce 25 kilocalorie-30 kilocalories. In recent years, many countries have started to use cactus for arteriosclerosis, diabetes and obesity, and have achieved good results.

It is said that this is mainly due to the fact that the vitamins contained in cacti inhibit the absorption of fat and cholesterol and can slow down the uptake of glucose. The nutrition of edible cactus is very rich, it contains a large number of vitamins and minerals, has the effect of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure, the young stem of edible cactus can be eaten as a vegetable, the fruit is a sweet fruit, the old stem can also be processed into health care products and drugs with the effect of removing blood lipids and cholesterol. Mexican pastries and dishes are made with flowers from the local cactus family.

There are many kinds of cactus plants, and the plants in the family have poisonous stingers, and if it is an artificially grown vegetable palm, it can be bought from the supermarket, and it is an edible cactus. It is said that there are 101 ways to cook cacti in Mexico: steaming, frying, stir-frying, submerging, barging, or serving as a salad. Among them, spicy fried cactus, egg fried cactus, and cactus salad are the most famous.

People eat cactus to eat the part of its tender stem, using cactus leaves to make vegetables, usually after thorning and peeling, boiled, sliced, oiled, put in seasoning to become a cold dish; If it is stir-fried, it does not need to be boiled, and it is directly cut and cooked.

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It takes four years for cactus fruits to ripen and harvest. Studies have shown that cactus fruit extract has miraculous effects such as accelerating wound healing, making the skin soft and delicate, preventing dryness, and reducing wrinkles, because cactus fruit is rich in antioxidants, riboflavin and thiamine (vitamin B1), which is an excellent nutrient for moisturizing and maintaining the skin. In addition, opuntia ficus-indica is the fruit of the opuntia genus, and the pulp is rich in trace elements, proteins, amino acids, vitamins, polysaccharides, flavonoids and pectin.

According to the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, cactus fruit has the functions of qi and blood activation, dampness and fever, and muscle building; Indians and Mexicans have also used it for thousands of years as food and medicine. The epidermis of the cactus fruit is covered with barb-like spines, which is not only difficult to harvest and has a long and scarce growth period, but scientists have also studied its effect on wound healing experiments and learned that the cactus fruit can promote the expansion and regeneration of normal fibroblasts in the human body, which is of great significance for the healing of wounds both inside the body and epidermis. It is rich in phytonutrients and antioxidants, which have excellent benefits both inside and outside the body.

In the experiment on the inhibition of free radicals by antioxidants, it was found that the antioxidant capacity of cactus fruit is 7 times higher than that of vitamin C, and contains high amounts of vitamin A, B1, B12, D3 and riboflavin, which can promote skin cell regeneration and enhance skin softness.

It is often assumed that cacti are only used as ornamental plants and have little use. In fact, the fruit of many cactus plants can not only be eaten raw, but also made into wine or dried fruit. Cactus has always been a traditional food in the Americas, is an indispensable part of people's daily life of a special vegetable and fruit, people wash and chop cactus and boil it in soup, or roast it on the stove, or make it into a pie filling, or directly pickle fresh cactus, and some use cactus to make wine.

In Mexican markets, the young stems of some flaky cacti are available as vegetables**.

You can eat it, you can eat cacti, but you have to dispose of the thorns when you eat it.

Can you really eat the fruit of the cactus, after eating it, the teeth are red, the mouth is red, and the hands are red, and the water can't wash it off.

1. Cactus fruit can be eaten. It is also possible to eat it raw. Cactus is a common drought-resistant plant, and the fruit of cactus is called cactus fruit, which can be eaten or eaten raw.

Generally, the growth period of cactus fruit is relatively long, only once in three or four years, and there are not many fruits each time. Cactus fruit extract has miraculous effects such as accelerating wound healing, making the skin soft and delicate, preventing dryness, and reducing wrinkles.

2. Cactus fruit extract has the miraculous effects of accelerating wound healing, making the skin soft and delicate, preventing dryness, reducing wrinkles, etc., because the cactus fruit is rich in antioxidants, riboflavin and thiamine (vitamin B1), which is an excellent nutrient for moisturizing and maintaining the skin. In addition, cactus fruit can also promote the diffusion and regeneration of normal fibroblasts in the human body, which is very helpful for the healing of wounds both inside the body and epidermis.