How It's Made: Cactus Pear Puree
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2019
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I like thefact that nothing goes to waste, every part is used efficiently, though they could've found a solution for the stickers that are fed to the livestock.
@BreadStickJuices playdo is also “edible”. Doesn’t mean you want to eat them. Just means you won’t get sick if you do
@@jamesbizs Difference is that the stickers are made so that they can be eaten and are rated safe to eat. Play-Doh is only technically edible as in it won’t kill you if digested. It’s not truly edible and it will make you sick if digested.
Thankfully waste is not profitable, but sadly it's the only reason industries even bother handling the waste
When it isn't profitable, and they're not forced to keep their image, you can see their true colors
@@acidset the main goal of a company is to make money, so if something isn't profitable is in direct conflict with the goal of the company, so no theyre obviously not going to do it unless its profitable. you can call it "showing their true colors" but its literally what a company must do.
They should've put the stickering step after the "puree or sell whole" sorting step. I mean, whoever designed the operation wasn't thinking that through.
I live in northern USA and have a bunch of these prickly pear cacti in my garden. They somehow survive the really cold winters and always produce fruit. I love them.
I saw lots of em when I was in Arizona and I ate them lol
@@trusttheprocess2833what do they taste like?
@@ff-ti7nj it taste sweet have you tried dragon fruit? somewhat like that.
@@trusttheprocess2833 I've never tried prickly pears, but dragon fruit is basically also the fruit from a number of closely related cactus species. :)
@@Zaxares dragonfruit are in the cactus family i think. So they would prolly taste similar
"...and they wear safety goggles to protect them from loose thorns that blow in the air" bruh rip to the first dude that got thorns in his eyes that brought about that policy
But the guy in frame is NOT wearing protective eyewear!
the thorns are very tiny and fine--you can hardly see them, but they hurt!
It usually becomes common practice after many people have been injured and sued. Whatever is more cost effective. The corporate way.
i came down here to say just that lol, there is always a story behind different safety rules
@@kimbenoit1976 😆😆learnt that hard lesson when I was a 7 year old kid. You need skills for that shit
Every time I watch anything from this channel I feel like it in 2012 or something , a weird feeling hits me when I noticed that the video been uploaded 7 hours ago .
Love this channel , love what there doing 💕
ikr. it felt so weird
Well to be fair they could be uploading old episodes
Drink cactus juice. It'll quench ya! Nothing's quenchier. It's the quenchiest!
- Sokka the very wise man
Who let Toph on fire?
@STEPHANIE ESQUIVIAS (Student) maybe it’s friendly
Every time I hear 'Cactus Juice' I think of Peter Brown.
How did we get out here in the ocean
We have these in South Africa. My brother taught to first check the wind direction before harvesting so the thorns don't blow into your eyes
I’ve made prickly pear wine. Good stuff
Used to put away 10 gallons of prickly pear juice every year
So that's why the puree has a hint of sticker taste. Very educational.
Them stickers tho
They're for inventory
They add flavor to the puree
Exactly!!! How is that sanitary...smh makes me more cautious than I already am in the store when I buy stuff
Sticker puree
Exactly! Why stick them if you're not gonna sell them and use them within the same facility to turn it into puré?
Prickly Pear is classed as a noxious weed in Australia. You can grow it but the problem is that spreads so easily. The wild cactus are sprayed with herbicide- you see a fair few of them around the NSW QLD border.
In south africa it's common and popular to those who have access to it. Not a commercial product yet. The prickly pear syrup is heavenly poured over white sorbet ice cream. I ate it once long ago.....still stuck in my head.....THAT TASTE!
I bought one of these from my grocery store. Not knowing what I was doing, I peeled and ate it after refrigeration. It was delicious, but I wasn't prepared for the tiny little black dress that are all through it. All in all, it's a wonderful fruit. Excellent flavor and hydration.
I don't think I'd be prepared to find a tiny little black dress inside a cactus fruit either
@@evanislost 😂😂😂😂 I didn't even notice that I wrote that! Tiny little black seeds****
@@evanislost Hahahahah!!
He broke the green one while picking the ripe one
In prickly pears if it is green it doesn’t always mean that it’s unripe. Prickly pears come in all colors ranging from green to yellow to orange to purple. Here in the Middle East we have all the prickly pears colors but the most common one is the orange one
I seen that too. Good lookin', yo.
@@pomi6320 ohh i see
@@johneckmaniv573 the prickly pear??
@@aesthetica7890
I have to try one some day.
These are getting unbelievably specific
Did not expect Salinas S/o! My city 😌
Fr
Sa-li-Naas! 😂
We lived across the street from a nopal orchard (as we called it) in San Jose.
2:53 "separate the skin from the flesh" sounds and looks real gory here
Brains.🧠🧠🧠
I wonder if movie studios use these to simulate blood and guts in horror films?
@@AlbertCalis so where do you think all them colours come from bruv? If you haven't figured out most are from plants
Makes great jelly too. Won a few blue ribbons at our Country fair for my jellies.
My mom used to make jelly out of them when I was a little kid. I miss them and her.
Great work
we have also in Egypt
we called it Spinal Figs
very nice fruit
looks like gore when crushed, like you could add that to a PETA "hidden cam" video and nobody would notice
Lol
yup
I thought it looked like massacred alien bits...
what was the point of putting the stickers on them if they were gonna get crushed anyways????
most likely for inventory reasons
To sort them in different sizes
To infect us with controlling substances. Just kidding...😆🤭
Those are the ones that got pulled off at the end of the sorting process
Theu have two process. Either sell them as a whole fruit, or mako them into puree then sell them. So the onse with the sticker and onse that are crush are different.
It is difficult to imagine that the percentage, declared fit for livestock, contains price stickers. Technically a microplastic. Revamp the process and phase out this likelihood.
Ahahahhahaha it’s just paper
they're edible tho. Even those on our fruits are edible so don't worry if you swallow an apple sticker by accident.
@@diegobahena1274 Interesting FYI.
Yea I see some people saying that their paper but where I live they use plastic stickers
@@mag-narwhal There are also plastic stickers on the produce I purchase; however, none of that produce had included the specific type featured in the video. Perhaps their labeling standard anticipates the likelihood of livestock's consumption.
In Spanish we call them "Tunas" not Pitaya as some call. That's more for Dragon fruit, but this Cactus is so tasty and has some good anti-aging properties
This is cool. I like that the excess is either made compost or as animal feed.
You nam saying, I'm feeling that
Feeding the animals with stickers in it
@@lancefortaleza3665 Not even remotely the worst thing animals eat on a daily basis
In Mexico, we cut them off the cactus and take the thick prickly skin off. Cut it up, and add lime, tajin, and salt. You eat it with the seeds!! Super sweet and refreshing!! Great for the summer!
Do you have to eat them right away or can you freeze them? How long do they last for frozen?
@@aheiden8002 I’ve never eaten them frozen, but e do turn it into a sorbet with just some water, lime juice, and simple syrup. I think if you peel them and freeze them they’ll be good forever practically, just don’t freeze them with the peel, the peel will rot if it defrost and it’s wet.
I found them inedible with the seeds.
In Egypt, the fruit is ripe in Summer. Hundreds of peddlers take to the streets with their wooden carts and sell it for buyers after, of course, peeling it, which is not an easy task as the thorns are very tiny and fine and find their way to their fingers no matter how thick are the gloves they are wearing. The price ranges from 1 to 3 Egyptian pounds (from 6 to 22 cents) per piece. We call it "teen". That's its name in Arabic.
Same thing happens here in Morocco but we called a funny name zaeboul
زعبول
@@azizbelkharmoudi2564 مرحبا بإخوانا في المغرب. الله يسعدكم يا رب.
@@drivingaround9147 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته و على اهل مصر ام الدنيا و ارض الكنانة🙏🙏🙏🙏
Same thing in Algeria .we called It . Elhindy الهندي ...
in the states we burn it with a propane torch to get rid of the thorns before we handle it, but still peeling each one is a pain
Aquí en México se le llama TUNA.
y es muy económica ya que se da en cualquier terreno.
Se hace igual curado de tuna. El curado es hecho con pulque, el pulque es una bebida artesanal que se hace a base de maguey.
So I see we get a little sticker glue with our cactus pear juice. Yummy 😋
That pickers mustache game is on another level
I remember Baloo singing about this fruit in the Bear Necessities
I believe they we paw paws not prickly pears, but probably in the same family.
No he was talking about prickly pears but he said use the claw not the paw- which probably made you think of pawpaws.
Cactus pear ice cream, sounds delicious 😋
It's a delight seeing the process.
Muy bueno el video...Felicitaciones desde Catamarca. Argentina
The fruits look delicious AF 😋
*The guy as a kid: I want to be a cactus harvester, so much fun!
*The guy now: oh no, what have I done.
Yum, sticker and prickly pear puree. My fave. 🤣
The ice cream looks yummy! I need to find some.😋
What about all those stickers?
They can't get through the screens and the glue they use on it is edible so it's just a waste of stickers
@OneHairyGuy // you're sick
Extra flavor
“The fruit is ripe when it’s skin starts turning red”
*cuts to multiple pallets of green pears*
Some pears are green, others are red. Both are ripe. The red one turns red when it’s ripe, the green one is green when it’s ripe. Think of it like a honeycrisp apple vs a Granny Smith apple. Honeycrisp is red, Granny Smith is green. The same fruit, different colors.
@@emeraldemerson6726 Lol no it's not like apples at all. Honeycrisp and Granny Smith are not the same type of apple and do not grow from the same plant at all. All the prickly pears you saw in this video are the same variety and come off the same plant. The difference in color is from ripeness, they start off green and turn orange/red/pink as they got more ripe. A granny smith is not going to turn red no matter how long you let it ripen so no not like apples but more like peppers.
Sometimes a green one tastes much sweeter than a red one. Maybe not as ripe but definitely delicious
wow i never know bout this cactus fatory before. thank for sharing
Great fruit! My grandma would buy it for my sister and I when we lived with her in peru
,, one of my favorites when
in season - TUNAS..
In México we called it "tuna"
Desert tuna
Why? It doesn't have anything to do with fish
@@crhiseb3004 and tuna Is "atún"
@Gary Tesla sweet but with a lot of seeds.
Im an American that lives in Mexico and I have to say this fruit is an acquired taste and not for everyone.
It is useful, thank u for sharing video. 👍👍👍
Looove cactus pear !
"...the harvesters wear thick leather gloves to protect their hands from the thorns." Been picking and eating these for 20+ years and that thought never crossed my mind.
Yh but you obviously have worked out a way to dodge them thorns, different routes to the same destination, no biggie
Do the ones you harvest not have glochids? They feel like fiberglass shards when you touch them, and you can't see them.
@@giga4052 Those glochids are the worst. They get through anything. I have to use a credit card or duct tape to get rid of them. Doesn't always work.
@@jontowers6780 When I harvest a lot I bring a propane torch and blast the outside of them thoroughly (not enough to cook), gets them all off for me.
If you aren’t harvesting many, scrubbing with a cast iron scrubber under running water works also. Or torching them with a gas stove top.
@@giga4052 I just don't go near them anymore.
Looks delicious, wanna try them once
Interesting!!
Thank's ,thank you very much. This frute is full in vitamine.
So the stickers are added before they are sorted. Therefore the adhesive in the stickers along with whatever else its made of it just added to the deliciousness.
*has flashbacks of devouring about 200 of these to survive a Deathclaw attack in F:NV*
Your profile picture is my golden pun etalon now, lol. I'M. LOVING. IT.
I didn't even know these were farmed... I always wanted to try one of these.
I love them 😍
in egypt we have it sold in streets it delicous
In Mexico we have them all over the place except the big cities
@@santamuerte5727 In Romania, I can't even find them in the supermarket
@@santamuerte5727 Im from CDMX and we have them everywere, cheap in the market or free in the garden.
I have never met a single person that calls it a "cactus pear".
Same
Me either here they call them prickly pears
Me too.I hear they call them tuna because that the Spanish word for prickly pear, and prickly pear
They have tons of names depending on the area. We call them French figs around here, and they neither figs, nor they came from France.
we call it bunghole pear.
Wow amazing
This show proves all workers in every industry are essential. That’s called a supply chain. NEVER again should you agree to lockdown for any reason whatsoever.
There are varieties that don't change the color of the skin when ripe.
I saw many always-green cacti in China!
BarackBananabama we also have here in lebanon some that are orange or yellow
I South Africa, the majority are green even when ripe.
we have them green-orange when ripe
Got some of these in my fridge right now, great to put in fruit smoothies.
Wow....Nothing is wasted
Wow! Those are some amazing -organs- Cactus Skins!
Pure with glue from the sticker labels, yumming
For real.. and the skin with the sticker is given away as food animals wtf
Somehow I'm expecting this comment when I saw that :DDDDD
Thank you for this comment. Good to see I'm not the only one, who's extremely bothered by this.
All those stickers are edible ☺
Its made of edible paper, and all the ingredients in the glue are food grade.
These are soooo good with Lemon and Salt too 😩
Trinidad Sandoval sin limón sin sal
Trinidad Sandoval you mean tajin?
Gary Tesla better than dragon fruits.
@Gary Tesla they are sweet
Hello cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ thanks you hi
😲Amazing👍
man i remember being a kid and eating these at my great grandparents ranch they were so good
What’d they taste like?
@@heavyizthacrown-5842 they don't have that much taste but they have alot of water in them
50 years old and I had no idea cactuses made fruit. What have I been doing with my life 😂
Cactii
They got flowers, so there must be something...
@@oron61 😆😆you trying
Vince black...Prickly pear, dragon fruit. And by the way I the agave you love is also from a cactus although not a fruit
Very nice 👍
AMO PITAIA!!
Sticker's, we don't need no stinkin' sticker's...
Better Call Saul!
For people worried about fruit stickers: They're completely edible, glue and all...might not taste too good, but won't hurt you if you have a plateful😉
"edible" but what does that mean? Is there a heavy regulation on that, or do they just use plastic based glue and stickers.
@@AN-wd5nu "Edible" usually means a reasonable amount of a substance can be eaten without it causing ill effects.
The glue is made from starches or plant gums, which are often found in many food products anyway, and the paper is made from wood pulp, which is essentially cellulose, AKA "fiber." And yes, at least in the USA, the materials used to make fruit labels are regulated to at least be nontoxic.
Gasoline is also edible.
@@gw3327 it's not.
Thank you agricultural workers!
Stickers in the juice and stickers in the sold compost or animal feed... nice.
Here in Morocco we call it "tahendecht" in Amazigh or"hendia" in Moroccan arabic
We have diffrent varieties of these (green , orange, red, purpul..) ....my favourite has to be the green one, so sweet .
And we all peel it with our bare hands no gloves
Picking this fruit is also an amazing activity too .
Interesting! Is this fruit sweet? How it taste like?
@@sianllanos6904 yes ... so sweet if it grows in the good conditions
I feel like it tastes like melon but never like a pear , I have no idea why they called it this name .
So at what step do the thorns get removed?
When the seeds get screened from the puree
1:08
This is exactly what I was asking the whole time!! Like they didn't even mention removing them! (I don't live near cacti and don't have much experience with them so maybe I'm overthinking it)
Loooove prickly pear margaritas😍😍
For those complaining about the stickers. I get you but the cacti were crushed so the sticker on the skin is not part of the final juice. You can see where they shovel the peels for compost that the stickers are still on the skin
Indeed
I didnt even know a cactus ca grow pears.
"Shoutout to all the pears!"
To me it's more like a pomegranate not in flavor but in flesh to seed ratio. It tastes nothing like pears either. The flesh has the same texture as kiwis in my opinion
What is the point in having a sticker on the fruit if there just going to be mashed up, that’s a huge waist of the supplies needed to make the stickers
I was thinking the SAME thing....
2.21 maybe the one with stickers where those they remove from the packaging line
Inventory and sorting
For sale sticker are pasted remaining are mashed
Why would they waste money putting stickers on what they already to mash? C'mon you lot, think ffs
Nice 👌
My favorite fruit ❤️
how many stickers are in that animal feed
When do they pull the thorns off of them? I didnt see that anywhere..
some went in with the stickers as well!
They brush and wash them off 1:10
@@jaimepuig2258 I have no idea what this lot was watching if they missed that obvious part. Tf?
Delicious fruit
Very sharp, very sharp indeed
I pick those for free by the roadside at hooooome 😂
Watch out for the thorns
This is like a slaughterhouse for fruit
If nothing ate, everything with die. Be sure to properly clean yourself.
I just wanna get in there and free all them
@@rachaeldbmiller I just wanna sit under all that oozing juice with my mouth wide open gulping away 🤤
I love this FRUITS it's so delis..I ate this every year
Ola comoestas soliDo
Wow!
I honestly never knew that cactuses produce fruits
whats the point of putting stickers on before they split the pears that'll be crushed and the ones that'll be sent whole? it's not only wasteful but youre putting stickers into animal feed and adhesive into the puree🤦🏻♀️
I as shook at how many people never heard or tasted this fruit , many mistake it for dragon fruit or simply ignore it existance , personally water melon is my N1 and then its cactus fruit its delicious and i love The seeds inside the fruit idk its an interesting texture and yes the oil is used to anti wrinkles skin care this fruit is miraculous as nothing goes to waste and its harvested from a cactus hard to believe a cactus could have such a beautiful tasty fruit .
The efficiency of this process is amazing… afaik, nothing goes to waste. Perhaps no profit is lost.
Kinda elder brother of pitaaya aka dragon fruit.
Also the puree still ones had the labelling sticker on them while crushed..but yyyy...paper and plastic ???
I saw it too
Extra flavor
Se llama tuna
juangv no just SUGAR LOL
Most people didn’t pay close attention, the one with the stickers are the ones going in to the stores the rest with “defects” are ones that end up as puree or juice !!! Thats why there is a second worker in the line!! And they hace to place stickers because of the reason i just told you!!! Pay attention people !!!
if you go to 3:10 you can see a sticker on the skin of a mashed prickly pear
And it's absolutely disgusting.
Love of solitude , this fruits important for me .
This is the first time im hearing these exist
Oh dear,
So 🐄 eat all them damm stickers left on the fruit 😆 secret ingredient i guess
Don't be silly. They not that dumb to waste money on sticking what they are going to mash
3:50 And some random lucky dudes could enjoy his cactus sticker oil.
It also breeds in a mountainous environment, as in my country
It tastes so sweet
Nice video