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I can\u2019t believe that today, November 6, I just had my favorite snack: A refreshing green prickly pear. I bought them yesterday in the grocery store for only 3\/$1.00, and kept them in the fridge. I remember growing up in M\u00e9xico, you could find them during the hot summer days in the mercado, red, yellow or white (green). My favorite is the green, \u201ctuna blanca\u201d. And, the wonderful people who sold the \u201ctunas\u201d, they also peeled them for you. You definitely don\u2019t want all those little spines all over your hands.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8PKOEsqgca0<\/a><\/p>\n I read about all the properties that this fruit has, but I don\u2019t have the authority to make comments about it. It\u2019s a fruit and, for that reasons is a healthy snack. You can also get tuna juice, water or ice cream. There is a long list of tuna products that you can find in M\u00e9xico, one of them is called \u201cQueso de Tuna\u201d, prickly pear cheese, it is a sweet and delicious brown mass that doesn\u2019t look like cheese.<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to mention that the cactus plant is part of the Mexican history, traditions and culture. Have you noticed that the Mexican flag has a cactus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can\u2019t believe that today, November 6, I just had my favorite snack: A refreshing green prickly pear. I bought them yesterday in the grocery store for only 3\/$1.00, and kept them in the fridge. I remember growing up in M\u00e9xico, you could find them during the hot summer …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-culture","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mexicanmasterpieces.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}