Can thornless cacti be eaten? Can you eat a prickly cactus

The thornless cactus is the Mibunta cactus from Mexico, which is edible! But thornless cacti must not be eaten! They all have toxic alkaloids in their bodies, and they will be poisoned if they eat them!

You can eat ......I only know that there are cacti eaters in Shandong.

The prickly cactus can be eaten, its fleshy stems can be eaten as a vegetable, and the fruit can be eaten as a fruit as a natural variety **.

Native to the Americas, abundant in Mexico, it is a food-type cactus cultivated by Mexicans from more than 300 kinds of cactus varieties after a long period of planting and domestication, cross-breeding, edible cactus is rich in potassium, calcium, iron, copper, polysaccharides, flavonoids and low sodium.

1. Growth temperature.

The most suitable growth temperature for edible cacti is 20 35, the growth is slow below 20, the growth basically stops below 10, and there is the possibility of freezing to death below 0.

In midsummer, when the temperature is above 35, the cactus grows slowly and is semi-dormant, so it should be shaded with a shade net in time to block the strong sunlight to achieve the purpose of cooling. Edible cacti can be planted all year round in the southern part of China, and spring, summer and autumn are the best in the northern region.

2. Eat. Cactus berries are sweet and sour and edible. [1] The cactus fruit is fragrant, sweet, tender and juicy, and is generally eaten fresh; Mexico and other places also use fresh fruits to process into canned food or alcoholic beverages, and can also be added with honey and fresh milk ice cubes to make juice, and the flavor of ice cream is better.

3. Feeding. The fleshy stems of cactus contain a large amount of comprehensive nutrients and trace elements, and its content is much higher than that of other crops. As a result, many arid regions of Mexico grow cacti for fodder as the only source of feed for livestock.

Hall jujube cactus is fed with other feed cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock, and there is no need to feed water all year round, and the feeding effect is very good.

Cactus is a more common plant in life, usually the cactus is not poisonous, only some rare Nazai cloth color is dark and with hoarfrost is poisonous, if you accidentally be pricked to appear red and swollen phenomenon do not worry, it is due to the cactus thorns in the air contaminated by the bacteria, not cactus poisonous.

Cactus is the best indoor succulent plant to purify the air, but it itself has a lot of thorns, accidentally pricked, so the cactus thorns are poisonous, in fact, it is not poisonous, if it is pricked to the hand, redness or infection, it is caused by the bacteria contaminated in the air by the cactus thorns, not the cactus is poisonous.

Generally, the cactus sold in the market is not poisonous, but some cacti contain a variety of alkaloids, if its thorns enter the human body, redness, swelling, itching will occur, if it is not handled well, it will flow pus infection, usually some dark color, most of the cacti with hoarfrost are poisonous, but it is rare.

When the thorns of the cactus are pricked, it should be dealt with in time, do not rub to avoid the thorns from entering deeply**, if it is a small one, you can blow it off with a hair dryer at home, if the larger ear is best to use tweezers to gently pinch out of the meat, or soak it in water with soapy liquid for about 10 minutes to avoid bacterial infection.

Cacti are generally non-toxic, but some cacti contain alkaloids, which will cause redness and swelling after entering with the thorns, making people feel painful and itchy, and they will also be red, swollen or suppurative and infected if they are not treated well. First aid: Clean the wound and rinse the puncture wound thoroughly with tap water and soap.

Pull out the thorns, use tweezers or thorn pulling tools, and pull out the thorns in the direction of the thorns.