Keyword

nopalitos

Description: Food made from the tender edible pads of prickly pear cactus, commonly prepared as a vegetable in Mexican cuisine.

Primary topic: Botanical Research and Applications (57%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q7049965

OpenAlex ID: keywords/nopalitos

Processing technologies: an alternative for cactus pear (Opuntia spp.) fruits and cladodes

2000 · Carmen Saenz · Journal of Arid Environments · 201

Cacti: biology and uses

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 180

Developmental changes in composition and quality of prickly pear cactus cladodes (nopalitos)

1988 · Armida Rodriguez-Felix, Marita Cantwell · Plant Foods for Human Nutrition · 126

Enemigos naturales de Dactylopius Opuntiae (Cockerell) en opuntia ficus-indica (l.) Miller en el centro de México

2010 · J. M. Vanegas-Rico, J. R. Lomeli-Flores, et al. · ACTA ZOOLÓGICA MEXICANA (N S ) · 82

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Physico-Chemical Changes In Cladodes (Nopalitos) From Cultivated And Wild Cacti (Opuntia spp.)

2006 · M. A. BETANCOURT-DOMÍNGUEZ, T. HERNÁNDEZ-PÉREZ, et al. · Plant Foods for Human Nutrition · 49

The prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica [Cactaceae]) in South Africa: Utilization of the naturalized weed, and of the cultivated plants

1993 · Marc O. Brutsch, Helmuth G. Zimmermann · Economic Botany · 47

Acidity changes and pH-buffering capacity of nopalitos (Opuntia spp.)

2004 · Joel Corrales-Garcı́a, Cecilia B. Peña-Valdivia, et al. · Postharvest Biology and Technology · 46

Diversity of Unavailable Polysaccharides and Dietary Fiber in Domesticated Nopalito and Cactus Pear Fruit (Opuntia spp.)

2012 · Cecilia Beatriz Peña‐Valdivia, Carlos Trejo, et al. · Chemistry & Biodiversity · 43

Modified Atmosphere Packaging of Prickly Pear Cactus Stems (Opuntia spp.)

2001 · J.C. Guevara, E.M. Yahia, et al. · LWT · 39

Nopalitos, Mucilage, Fiber, and Cochineal

2002 · Carmen Sáenz-Hernández, Joel Corrales-García, et al. · University of California Press eBooks · 36

Phytochemical characterization and antioxidant activity of the cladodes of Opuntia macrorhiza (Engelm.) and Opuntia microdasys (Lehm.)

2014 · Hassiba Chahdoura, João C. M. Barreira, et al. · Food & Function · 34

Effects of domestication on structural polysaccharides and dietary fiber in nopalitos (Opuntia spp.)

2011 · Cristian López-Palacios, Cecilia Beatriz Peña-Valdivia, et al. · Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution · 31

Presence of Multidrug-Resistant Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli , Enteropathogenic E. coli and Enterotoxigenic E. coli , on Raw Nopalitos ( Opuntia ficus-indica L.) and in Nopalitos Salads from Local Retail Markets in Mexico

2016 · Carlos A. Gómez-Aldapa, Jorge F. Cerna-Cortes, et al. · Foodborne Pathogens and Disease · 27

Anti-hypertensive, anti-diabetic, hypocholesterolemic and antioxidant properties of prickly pear nopalitos in type 2 diabetic rats fed a high-fat diet

2018 · Nour el Imane Harrat, Sabrine Louala, et al. · Nutrition & Food Science · 26

Effects of NaCl Salinity on Growth and Production of Young Cladodes of Opuntia ficus‐indica

2001 · B. Murillo‐Amador, A. Cortés‐Avila, et al. · Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science · 23

Rheological Flow Behavior of Structural Polysaccharides from Edible Tender Cladodes of Wild, Semidomesticated and Cultivated ‘Nopal’ (Opuntia) of Mexican Highlands

2016 · C. López-Palacios, C. B. Peña-Valdivia, et al. · Plant Foods for Human Nutrition · 20

Biophysical and physiological characteristics of nopalitos (Opuntia spp., Cactaceae) as influenced by domestication

2014 · Francisca García-Nava, Cecilia B. Peña-Valdivia, et al. · Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution · 20

Properties and postharvest behavior of the vegetable cactus Nopalea cochenillifera

1997 · A. Nerd, M. Dumoutier, et al. · Postharvest Biology and Technology · 19

Sensory characterization of nopalitos (Opuntia spp.)

2005 · M.P. Ruiz Pérez-Cacho, H. Galán-Soldevilla, et al. · Food Research International · 18

Clusters of commercial varieties of cactus pear and xoconostle using UPOV morphological traits

2011 · Clemente Gallegos-Vazquez, Alejandro F. Barrientos-Priego, et al. · Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development · 15

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Preference mapping and rheological properties of four nopal (Opuntia spp.) cultivars

2010 · Ayne O. Calvo-Arriaga, Arturo Hernández-Montes, et al. · Journal of the Professional Association for Cactus Development · 12

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Hyperaspis trifurcata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) y sus parasitoides en el centro de México

2015 · Juan Manuel Vanegas-Rico, J. Refugio Lomelí-Flores, et al. · Revista Colombiana de Entomología · 11

Chemical characteristics of non-starch polysaccharides of Opuntia cladodes as evidence of changes through domestication

2018 · Francisca García Nava, Maritza López Herrera, et al. · Food Bioscience · 10

Preparation of Opuntia Herbarium Specimens

2007 · JUAN ANTONIO REYES-AGÜERO, FERNANDO CARLÍN-CASTELÁN, et al. · Haseltonia · 9

The effect of size, cultivar and season on the edible qualities of nopalitos from South African cactus pear cultivars

2021 · Alba Du Toit, Onele Mpemba, et al. · South African Journal of Botany · 8

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Citation count: 1,232