Sentences with phrase «pear cacti»

Well drained and rocky substrate there creates a glade ecosystem where sloping ground can encourage the growth of prickly pear cacti and other desert and prairie species such as the collared lizard, Crotaphytus that last covered the whole area around 7,000 years ago in the Hypsithermal Interval, during the Holocene Period, when warming dried out much of the glacial Northern Hemisphere.

Centuries later, during the 16th and 17th centuries, the most popular red pigment came from a cochineal insect, a creature that could only be found on prickly - pear cacti in Mexico.

Baby Holler's wails were «so LOUD that the pecans fell from the pecan trees and the prickly pear cacti sprouted more needles.»

Leaf - footed cactus bugs — or Narnia femorata — generally grow to between 14 and 19 millimetres and live on prickly pear cacti around the southern US and Central America.

Driving through the Valley of Aijalon, we passed fields to our left covered now with prickly pear cactus and scrub trees.

Nopales or nopalitos are the leaves or pads of the opuntia or prickly pear cactus and are very popular throughout Mexico.

They come in an amazing variety of flavors such as tuna (the fruit of the prickly pear cactus), tamarind, cajeta or caramel, cucumber with chile, rice, and even elote or corn.

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Three years later, we came out with cactus salsa — which has two kinds of green chiles and diced prickly pear cactus — and everyone thought that was weird.

This unusual salsa calls for canned or bottled nopalitos, the stems of the prickly pear cactus.

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Nopal is the flat, fleshy pad or paddle of the prickly pear cactus, and it is an increasingly popular ingredient choice.

The Spanish word for cactus is nopal, and nopales is the term for the leaves or pads of the opuntia or prickly pear cactus.

Texas Moonshine Company, based in Comfort, Texas, is even distilling white lightning from non-traditional ingredients like prickly - pear cactus and jalapenos.

I - REMOVE contains Litramine ™, a patented fiber complex made from prickly pear cactus — manufactured using a proprietary technology — that allows the ingredients to bind to fat molecules from ingested food and makes them too large to be absorbed, so the body absorbs fewer calories from fat.

Oaxaca is known for its uncommon foods: floras de Calabasas or squash blossoms are frequently used in dishes (delicious); nopales or prickly pear cactus leaves grace some salads and soups (without spiny needles, of course); and there are chapulines, grasshoppers grilled in oil until crunchy and sprinkled with red chile powder (okay, I did eat one e... ah, several).

The prickly pear cactus fruit contains powerful antioxidants, reduces inflammation, and is ultra-hydrating.

These cactus paddles are the young pads of the prickly pear cactus..

8 You're better off with a prickly pear cactus.

Add fresh prickly pear cactus leaf, which has a flavor similar to that of green beans, to vegetable and fruit salads, soups or omelettes.

Researchers found that prickly pear cactus demonstrated strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.

Prickly pear cactus, a member of the genus Opuntia, also known as nopal cactus, grows in warm, arid parts of the world.

Pear cactus or prickly pear tastes sweet and soft.

Nopal, also known as prickly pear cactus, has been one of the most important botanicals consumed as a health - promoting food for centuries.

It contains antioxidants from a prickly pear cactus found in the Sonoran desert in Mexico.

We have written all about antioxidants and their benefits before and were thrilled to find that every part of the prickly pear cactus is rich with them.

Nopal is the flat, fleshy pad or paddle of the prickly pear cactus, and it is an increasingly popular ingredient choice.

Prickly pear cactus, also called nopal, is promoted for treating diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity and hangovers.

If you'd like to try prickly pear cactus, consider easing into it.

Nopalea has a key ingredient in prickly pear cactus which has been shown only to have minor therapeutic effects on blood sugar and cholesterol.

The key active ingredient is prickly pear cactus, which is much less expensive when purchased on its own.

With a powerhouse blend of prickly pear cactus and pink algae, it works to deliver antioxidants and fortify skin.

You never know what someone will find: lots of fish, a mouse, a squirrel, prickly pear cactus, violet, cattail rhizomes, water lily, acorns, wild onion — you're always hoping for a pizza, but it never comes.

The island also has a forest of large, prickly pear cactus, which provides food for the land iguanas.

You visit the Charles Darwin Research Station to see the giant tortoise pens, including tortoise celebriteis like «Lonesome George» within an impressive giant prickly - pear cactus forest, home to many land birds.

There is also a prickly pear cactus, which is native to parts of the Northeast.

Many plants, like the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) and Dioscorea elephantipes (elephant's foot) are naturally protected with weapon - worthy spines or a thick coating of armor.

Such species as Sedum ternatum (white flowered sedum, a shade lover), Opuntia humifusa (prickly pear cactus), and Allium cernuum (nodding onion) are such plants.

The maxim has resonance far beyond her dealings with the venomous creatures who share her 6,000 - acre property, along with the prickly pear cactus and ambling herds of beef cattle.

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It's also referred to as a Pitaya, Strawberry Pear or Mood Flower and is the unusually striking fruit of a cactus — don't worry, there are no thorns or stickers on it!

One was prickly pear, which is also known as cactus fruit.

He also points to a big increase in popularity of persimmons, especially the firm and reliably sweet Sharon variety, as well as cactus pears.

Also goes by the name of cactus fruit, tunas, or cactus pear.

They are thought to originate from Mexico where it thrived in the sugary water of the Ountia (prickly pear) cactus.

Various species of cactus were collected and eaten, including the fruits from the huge saguaros, but the most commonly used cacti were the varieties of the genus Opuntia, the prickly pears.

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A entirely unique sauce made with tangy Prickly Pear juice (cactus fruit), strawberries, and a blend of scorpion and habanero chiles.

«I've been a fan of Steaz's iced - green tea drinks for years, and I'm excited to now be working with the brand to help launch their new cactus water line and educate the public about prickly pear juice.

The nutritional value of one cactus stem of Opuntia ficus - indica — a «prickly pear» cactus popular in Mexico, where it is known as «nopal» — is often compared to that of a beef steak, and the roots of species such as Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus which is listed as Near Threatened, are used as anti-inflammatories.

Discovered in Central and Southern America and brought to Southeast Asia (where it became known as dragonfruit), this exotic cactus fruit has a mild, delicate flavor with pear - like notes, providing the perfect base to add in other flavors and superfoods.