How to peel a cactus fruit…

 

 

   Here’s a fellow with a good video on how to peel and use a cactus fruit.

 

   I’d mention that leather gloves aren’t really that good to use for cactus… the glochids will get stuck in the leather, and in time you’ll get stuck anytime you use the gloves, and spines will drop off them onto any surface you set them on. Better is to use the thickest rubber gloves you can find. If they are thick enough, you’ll get no spines at all.

 

  And never EVER use your wife’s dish towels to hold the cactus…. the spines will get in it and she’ll make you dry the dishes from that point on!

 

   I hold the fruit with a fork to peel it.

 

   Due to the spine issue, we don’t sell our fruits to the general public.
   If a commercial enterprise wants our cactus, they can e-mail us…
   We sell the fruits in five gallon buckets with a rubber gasket and easy-strip lid….
and inside a cardboard box….
   While we spray the fruits down a few days before harvest to remove the majority of the spines and dust… we don’t wash them after removal from the plant.   It is better to do the final cleaning at the store they are to be sold in.

 

 

 

 

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  Melissa’s Fresh Produce Tips

 

   With a good video also about how to clean a cactus fruit (Prickly Pear).