Natural Home Cures Only Offers Our Nopal Cactus Powder Capsules Supplements In Freeze Dried Form

Natural Home Cures Freeze Drying Machine

Freeze drying is taking biological material that is naturally high in water, freezing it, & then extracting the ice from that material. Freeze drying is the only process known to preserve biological material in its entirety without destroying the fruits' or vegetables' enzymes & nutrients.

If your bottle of nopal cactus pills does not say "freeze-dried," do not buy them, as you are not getting the full health benefits.

Below, we will break down the stages for freeze-drying: pretreatment, freezing, primary drying, and secondary drying that our nopal cactus (prickly pear) goes through before it is bottled and sold to you.

Pretreatment: We cut our nopal cactus (prickly pear) into smaller pieces & then ground it up, so it's easier to freeze-dry & encapsulate.

Freezing: The freezing stage is a crucial step in the preservation process. The entire point of freeze-drying is to preserve the nutrients, antioxidants & other complex natural compounds. Therefore, the nopal cactus (prickly pear) must be frozen quickly. If the freezing process is too slow, large ice crystals will form, destroying the nutritional value of our nopal cactus (prickly pear) product.

To understand the reason large ice crystals destroy the nutritional value, we need to delve into what makes our nopal cactus (prickly pear) supplement beneficial in the first place. The 3D structure of the molecules in our nopal cactus (prickly pear) gives it its health benefits. Remember that most organic material contains a large amount of water which will readily turn into ice crystals if exposed to temperatures below freezing.

If large ice crystals form during the freezing process, they will destroy the 3D structure of the molecules, which will destroy the nutrients, antioxidants, betalains, & other complex natural compounds of the nopal cactus (prickly pear).

Primary Drying: In this stage, the frozen prickly pear cactus supplement is transferred to a pressure-controlled 0.8 torr (a measure of pressure) chamber where the ice begins to leave the material via sublimation. This process takes a few days as high amounts of heat cannot be used without damaging the nutrient content of the supplement. For this reason, we do not sun or heat dry our nopal cactus (prickly pear). While sun and heat dry is a cheaper production process, cheaper does not translate into better quality for your health.

Secondary Drying: During secondary drying, the pressure is lowered, and the temperature is slightly increased to remove any water remaining in our prickly pear cactus supplement. After the secondary drying process is complete, our Natural Home Cures Freeze Dried Nopal Powder Capsules are ready to be consumed after they have been placed in vegetarian capsules.

Yes, Size Does Matter

The Bigger The Nopal Cactus Pads & Prickly Pear Tuna The More Nutritions The Finished Product Will Be

This is a typical mother pad from our field. The larger or more mature the pad, the higher the nutrient and mineral content of the finished product. Natural Home Cures always uses pads over 30 cm in length and at least 1 kg in weight with no less than 6 tuna. We use both the pad & the fruit in our Freeze Dried Nopal Powder Capsules (Prickly Pear). Anything smaller is not harvested, as it does not possess the same quality & quantity of beneficial nutrients that the more mature pad and tuna contain.