TEK - Just eating it?

[Vagisil]

say swim was in a position where he couldn't boil the cactus for hrs on end. maybe just a couple of minutes the most. but say he couldn't do this. could he just cut up the cactus and eat it? say cut a 12" part. cut off the green outter skin. then cut most of it all around and throw the white part away. could he just eat that layer he cut? and chug it down with some drink to try and mask the taste as much as possible? this would be swim's first time trying it. and swim has used many search engines. or should swim just try and find a source where it's the powdered or extracted from of san pedro or peruvian torch?

[ElectroStep]

Yep, just eating it works fine.

[Stiney]

Like step says eating it will work just fine. To reduce the amount that you are required to eat, you can cut away and disgard the inner whiteish part as it contains very little of the active chemicals. As for the taste, well to swim it taste just like a slightly saltly cucumber, the taste is not really the big issue for swim when eating it, the texture is, it causes an immediate gag reflex for swim as soon as he tries to swallow it, like mucus mixed with more mucus and a little blob of mucus thrown in for good measure. A couple of ways to avoid this texture are

1. Dry out the cactus material, it will dry completely and become hard like an old orange skin in a couple of days, quicker if left to the open air or in a heated room with good circulation. Then the dried material can be ground or blended into a powder, now just take teaspoons of it at a time and wash down with your beverage of choice, or it can be put into gel caps and swallowed that way.

2. After removing the skin and the inner core, dice the remaining material as fine as possible, roll it around in paper towels to remove as much of the slime as possible, then take handfulls of the diced materials and throw it back like you would handfulls of pills, immediatly washing it down with a beverage.

Also you should be aware that eating that much moist plant material, particuarly if you are a carnivore like swimself, can be upsetting for your stomach, expect cramps and diahrea.

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Great input

[Vagisil]

lol, thanks guys. well i eat a lot of salads sometimes. so it doesn't sound like it'll be that bad.