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How to Eat Prickly Pear, the Delicious Cactus Fruit With a Sweet Flavor
A staple throughout the Southwest, this desert fruit adds flavor and color to cocktails, salads, salsas, desserts, and more.
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Prickly Pear: A Guide to Taste, Benefits, and Creative Uses
red, or deep magenta. The exterior is covered in small spines or glochids, which require careful removal before consumption. Inside, the flesh of the prickly pear is soft, juicy, and studded with ...
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Prickly Pear Park set to open in April as smelter pile remediation continues
The Prickly Pear Land Trust brought community members together on Tuesday to provide an update on the status of Prickly Pear ...
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Why tiny cactus bugs in red food dye are a $35 billion industry
An curved arrow pointing right. Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles, cosmetics, and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait yogurt.
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The crushed bugs that dye foods red, like strawberry Yoplait yogurt
They're tick-sized critters native to Mesoamerica where they suck the juice from prickly pear cactuses. Nancy Greig: And if you squish them, they are bright red inside and kind of a purply ...
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How to Eat Prickly Pear, the Delicious Cactus Fruit With a Sweet Flavor
In botanical terms, the small, plump prickly pear is, in fact, a berry, measuring 2 to 5 inches, and ranging in color from red to pale yellow, or green, with deep red flesh. Desert fruit ...