食用仙人掌通常是指肉质茎可以作为蔬菜食用,果实可作为水果鲜食的仙人掌品种。这种仙人掌在我国南方干热地区均有野生繁衍,因其浑身带刺、口感差、生产慢而长期得不到人们的开发利用。据了解,用食用仙人掌做菜在国外已很普遍。种植食用仙人掌目前在南美洲、欧洲等地一些国家已形成较大的产业规模。食用仙人掌不仅营养丰富,而且还具有较高的药用价值,可加工成多种保健品,还是制作罐头、饮料、酿酒的上等原料,在美容、化妆品领域也有重要作用。植物多糖固体凝胶对提高免疫力有很好的功效。 Cactus edible usually refers to meaty stems can be used as vegetables, fruits can be used as fresh fruit cactus varieties. This cactus in the hot and dry areas in southern China have wild multiplication, because of its whole body prickly, poor taste, slow production and long-term development and utilization of people. It is understood that cooking with food cactus in foreign countries has been very common. Planting edible cactus currently in South America, Europe and some other countries have formed a larger industrial scale. Cactus not only nutritious, but also has high medicinal value, can be processed into a variety of health products, or the production of canned food, drink, wine, the finest raw materials, in the field of cosmetics, cosmetics also has an important role. Plant polysaccharides solid gel to improve immunity has a good effect.