Table 1.

Main products and by-products obtained from Opuntia (Nopal).

Products from Cladodes (CLDs)	Products from Prickly Pear Fruits (PPFs)	By-Products from CLDs and PPFs
Lacto-fermented pickles	Juices, nectars, pulps, purees	Fruit and seed oil
Candies, sweets	Jams, jellies	Peel pigments and/or fruit debris
jams	fruit leather and teas	Cladode extracts
flours	syrup, sweetener	Dietary fiber and cladode mucilage
Fresh and cooked vegetables	Bioethanol, wine	Pigments for cosmetics
Ethanol	Canned and frozen fruit
Edible coating	Juice concentrates and spray dried juice powder

Table modified from Feugang et al. (2006) [18].