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Both the fruit and the pads have nutritional benefits. Then when you are ready to cook them pour them into a large pot thaw a little heat on medium for about an hour mashing with potato masher periodically.
They are rich in dietary fiber high in antioxidants.
Juicing prickly pear fruit. I have found the easiest way to make prickly pear juice. Just place all the pears in a double large zip lock bag and freeze them. Then when you are ready to cook them pour them into a large pot thaw a little heat on medium for about an hour mashing with potato masher periodically.
Once you have the prickly pears prepared and peeled making the juice is easy. Simply add the full prickly pears to a blender. To flavor the juice you can add lime juice or mint leaves and some agave syrup for sweetness.
You may think that you should add some water at this step but it shouldn t be necessary. Prickly pears have a lot of natural moisture that they should blend quite well without the need for additional liquid. To get your prickly pear juice you can peel the fruit carefully with a knife and proceed but that leaves some flavor and tartness on the cutting board.
Most of the tartness in any prickly pear fruit is in the skin. But that s where the glochids are. Rinse the prickly pears and set them in a pot with about 1 inch of water.
Bring the water to a simmer and cover. Simmer the fruit for 10 minutes. Tumble the fruit in warm water several times.
Take a firm bristled brush and scrub each pear well several times. Red prickly pear health benefits. As a food juice and nutritional supplement the red fruits are the most popular.
As such we will focus on that color. The only benefits of prickly pear red fruit which have been clinically studied are the lowering of blood sugar and reducing oxidative stress in the body. Although the juice of a prickly pear fruit has a tart flavor the acidity ranges from 5 to 7 ph which indicates that the fruit should be handled as a low acid food that requires either pressure processing or acidification and water bath processing to properly can juice or fruit products.
Both the fruit and the pads have nutritional benefits. Place the slit fruit into a deep pot. Fill the pot with enough water to cover the fruit by about 1 inch 2 54 centimeters.
Bring the water to boil over high heat. Prickly pear juice is sometimes called jugo de tuna you can drink it on its own or use some to make cocktails such as margaritas. A basic recipe for making jugo de tuna is.
Combining fruit from 5 6 prickly pears with 4 cups of cold water juice from 2 limes and 2 tablespoons of raw honey. Nutritional benefits of prickly pear prickly pear fruits can be eaten whole juiced or added in salad. They are rich in dietary fiber high in antioxidants.
Carotenoids polyphenols flavonoids and betacyanins. It also contains linoleic acid an essential fatty acid and several protein block building amino acids.