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Prickly pears or Indian fig is the most economically useful, in Latin America call tuna has scientific name as Opuntia ficus-indica, thornless cactus, fruits can consume, has nutritional value and high amount of sugar. Not only eat raw but ripe prickly pears can make fruit juice, wine, jam or syrup. Baby leaves of prickly pears call nopalea or nopalitos can eat like vegetables. In baby fruit and baby leaves can fermented, use as animal feed. Prickly pears flower has medicinal properties that treat diseases related to the urinary system. Substance in trunk can cure diabetes. It also count as habitation of Cochineal insect: Dactylopius coccus Costa which female insect when pregnant will give color name cochineal that can use to make natural color name carmine for use in food and cosmetic industry. So to plant prickly pear in country or area must aware of too much spread of the plant make it hard to control and eliminate.