How to Harvest and Enjoy a Prickly Pear Cactus Fruit

Cactus is a common ingredient in many Mexican dishes (known as nopales or tuna) and the fruit it bears is sweet and delicious.  The prickly pear is riddled with seeds which makes it difficult to eat, but if you can get past that, you will enjoy the mild flavor and the juicy sweetness of the inner fruit.