{"id":452,"date":"2009-05-18T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2015-02-16T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:31:03","slug":"opuntia-ficusindica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/opuntia-ficusindica\/","title":{"rendered":"Opuntia ficus-indica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;prickly pear&#8221;.\u00a0 A domesticated cactus used for food as well as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugs.com\/npp\/prickly-pear.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medicinal purposes<\/a>.\u00a0 Opuntia is traditionally used as a <a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=217133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hangover cure<\/a>, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/ajcn.nutrition.org\/content\/80\/2\/391.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antioxidant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16220574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hepatoprotective<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjgnet.com\/1007-9327\/12\/4318.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gastroprotective<\/a> effects.\u00a0 Opuntia pads (nopales) contain fiber\/mucilages that <a href=\"http:\/\/care.diabetesjournals.org\/content\/30\/5\/1264.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve glycemic control<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12503475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blood lipids<\/a>. &#8220;In-house&#8221; studies by Bio Serae, manufacturers of a commercial extract, Neopuntia, indicate it may be useful for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neopuntia.com\/uk\/Scientific-background_2_10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reducing dietary fat absorption<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18029338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improving the symptoms of metabolic syndrome<\/a>.\u00a0 These results need to be confirmed by independent studies, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as &#8220;prickly pear&#8221;.\u00a0 A domesticated cactus used for food as well as\u00a0medicinal purposes.\u00a0 Opuntia is traditionally used as a hangover cure, and has antioxidant, hepatoprotective and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[212,498,654,693,714,731,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}