Groups raw and cooked prickly pear cactus pads, commonly known as nopales, into a single culinary archetype.
Wild & Farmed
photograph to come — from twenty years of markets, farms and kitchens
Nutrition (per 100g)
Energy
16kcal
Protein
1.4g
Carbs
1.3g
Fat
0.1g
Fibre 2g
Sugar 1.1g
1 pad is about 29 g.
What it costs the planet (per kilo)
Carbon
≈1.02kg
Freshwater
≈225.15L
Land
≈1.15m²
≈ Estimated — worked out from a category-typical value further up its supply chain. Where this comes from →
Where it comes from
Made from
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Where this data comes from
Nutrition data from
USDA
How it was calculated
SR Legacy
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Where to next
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