We grow other practical cactus than what we have on the website and talk about the most. This one is going to a customer who uses it in some formulations. The plant is Opuntia robusta.
We enjoy working with the various companies that use our cactus for production purposes, whether freeze-dried and cubed or powdered, as well as the various chefs, restaurants, food stores and home cooks who use our nopal cactus.
We do and have done business with several companies that use our cactus. It has been processed through purees and drying, freeze dried and powdered, we've worked with a major pharmaceutical firm on a cactus-cancer cure..... and we sell to Aveda Cosmetics for their Green Science line of cosmetics which uses our cactus in their formulations.
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Que hacemos y han hecho negocios con varias empresas que utilizan nuestros nopal. Se ha procesado a través de purés y secado, y en polvo, liofilizado, hemos trabajado con una gran empresa farmacéutica en un nopal de la cura del cáncer... y vendemos a cosméticos Aveda para su ciencia verde línea de cosméticos que utiliza nuestro cactus en sus formulaciones.
These folks make a hair conditioner with cactus as an ingredient.
We sell our cactus to Aveeda for their 'Green Science' line of cosmetics, so we know it's good for the skin in some way.
Web MD is a good source for health news. Here they discuss Nopalea cactus which many of our customers say helps control their diabetes.
Prickly pear cactus is used for type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, alcohol hangover, colitis, diarrhea, and benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). It is also used to fight viral infections.
Prickly pear cactus contains fiber and pectin, which can lower blood glucose by decreasing the absorption of sugar in the stomach and intestine. Some researchers think that it might also decrease cholesterol levels, and kill viruses in the body.
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-880-prickly%20pear%20cactus.aspx?activeingredientid=880&activeingredientname=prickly%20pear%20cactus
mm-MM-mm Good!
Edible Cactus should be regarded as an herb.
Mix a little bit with almost anything else one is eating.
Dr. Oz uses some funnels and such to illustrate how it is thought eating cactus helps control the flow of sugar into the body, and thereby help relieve some of the symptoms of Type II diabetes for some people.
Many of our customers say that eating just a little of the cactus every day or two helps maintain their proper blood-sugar levels. I'm not a doctor, so I have to rely on the doctors (and customers) to know these things.
A cute Mexican accent and a fine dish of cactus!
Our cactus is easy to prepare though... not as much knife-work and learning as the spiny cactus has.