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Post by Dudley on Apr 5, 2004 15:00:27 GMT -8
AKA prickly pear. My friend fed this stuff to his male (Gomer) after I had given him a printout from the GIS food chart, and he loved it. Does anyone have an opinion on this? Has anyone tried it? Or is it just us Texans that keep it in our grocery stores?
Clint and Dud'
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Post by Tesa on Apr 5, 2004 15:56:14 GMT -8
Cacti are listed as fruit which is supposed to be a minimal percentage of the ig diet...... but it has a good calcium to phospohorus ratio (2.3:1) with a low potassium level too. It's good I've only used it once cause it was SUCH a pain to clean!
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Post by Dudley on Apr 5, 2004 15:57:26 GMT -8
The stuff he bought already had the skin removed so all he had to do was chop it up.
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Apr 5, 2004 22:28:03 GMT -8
I live in Central California, and we have a large hispanic community, so cactus is readily available. I can buy it peeled and diced already. I just rinse it and check each piece for thorns that might have been missed.
Gil loves it.
Tesa, is the leaf considered a fruit, and not just the "pear?"
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Post by Tesa on Apr 6, 2004 3:41:03 GMT -8
Well, that's what the GIS food chart says it is. seems weird tho...I guess I can look and see what the nutritional values are on the other vitamins and minerals. **nods** I'll get back to ya on that. ;D
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Post by dominick on Apr 6, 2004 7:58:38 GMT -8
I buy "cactus" from the Mexican store in my little hamlet of a town.
Rex doesn't much care for it. I simply grate it over his greens and veggies from time to time.
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Post by Merlin on Apr 6, 2004 16:58:41 GMT -8
I've never tried the leaf but i gave Zok some of the Cactus pear. She tongue flicked it a couple of times, gave me THAT look and walked off. Ended up pitching the rest.
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Post by Dudley on Apr 6, 2004 17:47:44 GMT -8
Ok, for you guys who don't have this stuff in your front yard. On prickly pear plants the leaf is the pear. Thought I'd clear that up. ;D
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Apr 7, 2004 19:50:04 GMT -8
OK, Dudley, then what's the red bulb-ish thing that comes off those plants? Or is that a different type?
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Post by Merlin on Apr 8, 2004 18:26:38 GMT -8
The prickley "pear" is the red bulbous fruit that is full of seeds. The cactus leaf is just that, a leaf. However the entire plant is called a prickley pair cactus.
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Apr 8, 2004 22:23:36 GMT -8
Well that's what I was thinking. Thanks for helping me feel less . I needed that!
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Post by Dudley on Apr 9, 2004 4:47:40 GMT -8
The flower? Ours never get that thing.
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Post by Merlin on Apr 9, 2004 11:03:25 GMT -8
The cactus flowers and then produces a fruit. Its sort of shaped like a skinny eggplant with a reddish blush. It is just crammed full of small seeds. Some people use thm to make jelly. Its odd that you don't have them in Amarillo, I have seen them growing with fruit on them around Oklahoma.
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Post by Dudley on Apr 10, 2004 15:09:21 GMT -8
I either haven't noticed or something eats it before it grows, but either way I don't recall ever seeing a prickly pear with anything but green and thorns.
I WAS WRONG.
That was hard to admit.
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Apr 10, 2004 21:29:21 GMT -8
I won't tell ANYONE you said that, Clint!
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