How It's Made: Cactus Pear Puree

Learn how cactus pear is harvested and made into puree!

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[armegeddon]

I live in northern USA and have a bunch of these prickly pear cacti in my garden. They somehow survive the really cold winters and always produce fruit. I love them.

[miloudbouchefra]

I like thefact that nothing goes to waste, every part is used efficiently, though they could've found a solution for the stickers that are fed to the livestock.

[miniweaver]

Every time I watch anything from this channel I feel like it in 2012 or something, a weird feeling hits me when I noticed that the video been uploaded 7 hours ago .

Love this channel, love what there doing 💕

[redred]

"...and they wear safety goggles to protect them from loose thorns that blow in the air" bruh rip to the first dude that got thorns in his eyes that brought about that policy

[paradoxxop]

Drink cactus juice. It'll quench ya! Nothing's quenchier. It's the quenchiest!

[boodro]

I bought one of these from my grocery store. Not knowing what I was doing, I peeled and ate it after refrigeration. It was delicious, but I wasn't prepared for the tiny little black dress that are all through it. All in all, it's a wonderful fruit. Excellent flavor and hydration.

[LawAndBedlum]

We have these in South Africa. My brother taught to first check the wind direction before harvesting so the thorns don't blow into your eyes

[kightremin]

So that's why the puree has a hint of sticker taste. Very educational.

[aesthetica]

He broke the green one while picking the ripe one

[swindle]

what was the point of putting the stickers on them if they were gonna get crushed anyways????

[Godisnotjesus]

In south africa it's common and popular to those who have access to it. Not a commercial product yet. The prickly pear syrup is heavenly poured over white sorbet ice cream. I ate it once long stuck in my TASTE!

[MatoNupai]

I’ve made prickly pear wine. Good stuff

Used to put away 10 gallons of prickly pear juice every year

[Zethanie]

It is difficult to imagine that the percentage, declared fit for livestock, contains price stickers. Technically a microplastic. Revamp the process and phase out this likelihood.

[konoha]

2:53 "separate the skin from the flesh" sounds and looks real gory here

[chesilly]

This is cool. I like that the excess is either made compost or as animal feed.

[ianleckie]

Prickly Pear is classed as a noxious weed in Australia. You can grow it but the problem is that spreads so easily. The wild cactus are sprayed with herbicide- you see a fair few of them around the NSW QLD border.

[YeahTechus]

I didn’t realize how much goes into this process. Fascinating to watch!

[Mouserzz]

looks like gore when crushed, like you could add that to a PETA "hidden cam" video and nobody would notice

[tokaboi]

In Spanish we call them "Tunas" not Pitaya as some call. That's more for Dragon fruit, but this Cactus is so tasty and has some good anti-aging properties

[him]

These are getting unbelievably specific