The fruit will be ready to eat when it is plump, has smooth skin and feels heavy. Unripe prickly pear fruit will not come away from the cactus with ease. Something else to consider when growing ...

You can eat it raw and enjoy it by itself as a snack. You can also incorporate cactus fruit into fruit salad recipes. Cactus ...

Nopales are the pads or leaves of the nopal cactus or the prickly pear (botanical name, Opuntia ficus-indica) and are usually eaten as vegetables; the edible cactus fruit is called tuna.