SOS: How to Survive - Cacti Full Of Water?

Are you one of the people that believes this desert myth? Creek Stewart breaks it down and teaches more survival skills on the season 2 premiere of SOS: How to Survive, Sunday 8/7c.

[emanuelpaulcoronado]

This guys just crushed my 19 years of belief on cactus as a source of drinking water

[cats]

Guy: *drinks juice, then proceeds to mention the dangers of it*

[vossboss]

so... so cactus juice isn't the quenchiest?

[chinesenoodles]

Common prickly pear cacti are pretty much all safe to eat and not endangered, they will give you water in the desert, also if it is in the late fall and winter there is a chance a lot of cacti will have fruit on them, eat the fruit, they contain lots of water and electrolytes. All cactus fruits are edible.

[Silly.duckz.]

ITS THE QUENCHIEST! ....LOOK A GIANT MUSHROOM!

[conorbailey]

Don't believe him about the cactus juice. It'll quench ya.

[brettwillis]

Drink cactus juice. It'll quench you, nothing's quenchier; it's the quenchiest 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[lelu]

On another video a guy ate the whole thing and said it tastes like Mellon 😂😂

[ChandrasegaranNarasimhan]

Well, I have a question for you. It may not have water, but will it absorb and retain water for a long time? Can you compare its water retention quality with an tropical plant?

[IzludeTingel]

bob hansler: i'm about to ruin this man's career

[abandonedaccountiwontreply]

hey umm, i tested this to see if its true and i kinda poked a whole in it then squeezed my cactus, and guess what, THERE WAS WATER

[colbymorris]

Try prickly pear bud. Absolutely packed full of water. Not laddle scoops by any means but if you eat it you will hydrate yourself. Folks been surviving in my part of the world for hundreds of years doing this. It's also a staple cuisine in Texas and Mexican food.

So what you should have said was, this one subspecies of endangered cactus has undrinkable water. There are plenty other ones that will do the job. I make a point not to eat cactus that resemble peyote plants anyhow. Stick with the abundant ones you know. If it looks weird and no other animals or insects bother with it, prolly a good sign to leave it be.

Find some nice prickly pear
Burn off the spines and enjoy. The red flower buds are especially delicious once you burn the hate off lol

[strategoscastaneda]

So there's no water in any kind of cactus, right? Because that was one kind, what about the other ones?

[easybreezy]

Thanks for this valuable life saving information

[isbsjxbxns]

So this video pretty much let me know I have no chance of survival if I am one day stranded in a desert. So what’s the next best source of water?

[nogunk]

So then what should we do instead? Very informative video 🙄

[jonathanboyd]

What city and state is this desert in?

[Blockofsoap]

Cactus is no longer brondo the thirst mutilator it is the opposite is alkaloid the dehydrator

[mlisaj]

You would be surprised how many people believe things because “they saw it in a movie or TV show” scene.

Movies are made to be entertaining and profitable. They are almost never made to be “accurate.”

The medical scenes in particular are full of tropes that are either ridiculous or dangerous.

[Ygcgc-kcwf]

If you create a problem give the solution