Prickly pear pads, or nopales, are widely available in Mexican groceries, but they are also showing up in Arizona farms.

Visiting Arizona? Want to drink a cactus? The hotel you're staying in might have beverages flavored with prickly pear like lemonades and margaritas.

Despite its unusual appearance, cactus fruit is delicious and loaded with nutrients. Also known as prickly pear, tuna fruit, or cactus pear, it has a naturally sweet flavor and can be used in various ...

Could cactus pear become a major crop like soybeans and corn in the near future, and help provide a biofuel source, as well as a sustainable food and forage crop? According to a recently published ...

Like their name implies, prickly pears can be a thorny fruit to deal with. They’re covered in tiny needles, chock-full of hard seeds and their juice can stain everything it touches a shocking magenta ...

In parts of Texas, the prickly pear cactus is everywhere — potted outside coffee shops, dotting the side of the road, poking out of cracks in the sidewalk. It also lines the pathways of the University ...

Global warming, drought and plant disease pose a growing threat to agriculture in Italy’s arid south, but a startup founded by a former telecoms manager believes it has found a solution: Opuntia Ficus ...

For generations Algerians like the Gueldasmi family have barely eked out a living growing prickly pear fruits, but thanks to the cactus's new found virtues their lives are steadily improving. "Now, my ...

Amelia Saltsman spends a lot more time at farmers markets than you do. Unless you’re a farmer, at any rate, in which case you probably know Saltsman and have maybe talked to her for her first book, ...

Cactus fruit may look intimidating with its sharp spines, but it is completely safe and easy to eat Beneath its tough skin lies a juicy, mildly sweet flesh rich in fibre, vitamin C and antioxidants ...

Could cactus pear become a major crop like soybeans and corn in the near future, and help provide a biofuel source, as well as a sustainable food and forage crop? According to a recently published ...

Could cactus pear become a major crop like soybeans and corn in the near future, and help provide a biofuel source, as well as a sustainable food and forage crop? Researchers believe the plant, with ...