TUNAS! Cactus fruit.

[boom]

It’s that time of year! I grew up in the desert southwest so we got these. I got my wife hooked on them. Luckily I can find them now at my ethnic grocery stores. Short season.

 

[Sweetbun]

Wow! I want to see them cut open!

 

[boom]

Wow! I want to see them cut open!

give me a minute...haha

 

[boom]

Here; there are no food parallels I can use to describe the flavor. lightly sweet. imagine a sweet cucumber? it is full of seeds you can't chew, but you just swallow them and file them under the umbrella of "fiber".

 

[pepperhead212]

Only used them once, and that description of a "sweet cucumber" is about as close as I could come to it. And due to those seeds, I ended up making a delicious "smoothie" with them - they disappear in the Vitamix, like with many seeded foods!

 

[taxlady]

I have had them and I like them. But, they are quite expensive here in Quebec, so I don't usually buy them. They are not so wonderful that I miss them.

 

[Kathleen]

In smoothies, it sounds good. How else do you use them?

 

[taxlady]

In smoothies, it sounds good. How else do you use them?

Any way that you use other types of cut fruit: fruit salad, ice cream, on breakfast cereal, as part of a fruit and cheese platter, ...