Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly ...

Prickly pear pads, or nopales, are widely available in Mexican groceries, but they are also showing up in Arizona farms.

Nopales, also known as prickly pear cactus pads, are vastly versatile, antioxidant-packed succulent plants. While these spiny cactus paddles are staples in Mexican cooking, their uses are endless and ...

Throw a rock in New Mexico and you will most likely hit a prickly pear cactus. The plentiful and beautiful cacti, also known as nopales, produce a sweet and bright ruby fruit that sprouts from hearty, ...

The flat green pads of the prickly pear cactus may look too thorny to eat. In Mexico, however, the young pads are known as nopales and have been part of food tr ...

If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size cactus ...