Monday 8 August 2016

Medicinal and Health Benefits of Cactus

In the countries like Italy, Mexico, Spain, USA and North Africa, people include cactus in their regular dietary requirement. With the flavor of fresh fruits as an excellent quality, young leaves of cacti serve as salad dish and nutritious vegetable.

Cactus Health benefits
It is known that all cactus plants are not edible. You can find the two main species of cactus which are suitable and medically useful for human consumption below.

1. Opuntia or prickly pear cactus health benefits:
The key characteristics of this cactus species are spiky protruding paddles from a stem and attractive yellow, orange or red bulbous fruit and tangled mass of vivacious green. Prickly pear is also known as paddle cactus and it belongs to the genus of Opuntia cacti.

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