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Prickly pear
📍 120 W Railroad Ave, Kennewick, WA 99336, USA
🗓 Season: August · September · October
🔍 When is it ripe?
Turns from green to red, orange, or yellow depending on species. Ripe when skin gives slightly and colour is fully developed. Use tongs and burn off the tiny glochid spines with a flame or rub in sand before handling. Sweet, mild flesh.
4 or 5 large cacti in the gravel right on the corner.
Tips and Tricks and First Hand Wisdom:
-If you've never collected prickly pears before, absolutely do not handle the fruit with your bare hands. They're covered in tiny hairs called glochids that break off in your skin real easy and you can't dig them out like a splinter.
-Ripe fruit has no green and pulls free fairly easy.
-The best way to collect them is with tongs of some kind, and glochids are easiest removed with fire (no I'm not kidding)
-Be mindful of the seeds, they're rock hard and will break a tooth.
Nutrition of 1 fruit:
Potassium 227 g -
Total Carbohydrate 10 g -
Dietary fiber 3.7 g -
Protein 0.8 g -
Vitamin C 24% -
Calcium 5% -
Iron 1% -
Vitamin B6 5% -
Magnesium 22% -
(% of Daily Value)
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