Experience Our Freshness!
We offer Prickly Cactus Chips and Prickly Cactus Pitas in 3 different infusions
We proudly hand-make our products in our dedicated facility located in Ontario, Canada from imported and domestic ingredients.
Our Prickly Cactus Chips and Prickly Cactus Pitas are made of 70% fresh nopal cactus and organic coconut flour. These two main ingredients, Nopal and organic coconut flour, are known in their own right to facilitate a positive effect on blood sugar.
Some Healthy Facts about Nopales
The Food Literacy Center, a non-profit organization based in Sacramento, California with the mission to inspire kids to eat their vegetables selected nopales as the 2016-2017 Veggie of the Year. Food Literacy Center
Research suggests nopales have the propensity to affect glycemic index/load. The vegetable also provides vitamin C, magnesium, calcium and Polyphenols.
Nopales are especially rich in antioxidants, known as carotenoids, that protect your cells from damage. (ResearchGate, 2017)
Some Healthy Facts about our Prickly Cactus Chips and Prickly Cactus Pitas
Our Prickly Cactus Chips are crunchy, low carb, and a great treat; amongst their universal attributes such as vegan, gluten-free. grain-free, diabetic-friendly and keto-friendly.
Each Prickly Cactus Pita has only 5 net carbs and 70 calories, and can also be used as taco shells, flatbread, mini pizza crust, wraps or stuffed pocket pita.
Our Philosophy
HPC is always seeking to keep on innovating healthy food products into our product line. Those products will be innovative, healthy and in alignment with our mission “When your health is of the utmost importance!! Healthy is what we look at first when we make our products”.
How To Pop a Prickly Cactus Pita?
To pop a Prickly Cactus Pita; all you will have to do is place the pita on a flat or cast iron pan that has been preheated for about a minute or two, at medium to high heat. The pita will pop within 15 - 20 seconds.
If you can find a stainless steel trivet rack stand, like the one seen in the video (to the right of the screen), then you can achieve the same results.
If you are using the stainless steel trivet rack stand, you will need to make sure that the element is on medium to high heat, first. Once, the heat is on for about a minute or so, then place your pita on the rack and it should start to pop. This will only work with electric elements, if you are using a gas stove, you will need to use aluminum foil as a barrier between the gas flame and the Prickly Cactus Pita. This way you will avoid burning the Prickly Cactus Pita.
As we use nothing artificial, it is recommended that if you do not use all your pack of prickly pitas within fourteen (14) days, that you freeze them and defrost as needed. We believe in only using the greatest and freshest ingredients, so that is why we only ship you the freshest baked Prickly Cactus Pitas. We are happy to use freshly squeezed lime juice to control acidity and any bacteria, therefore, our Prickly Cactus Pitas only last two weeks in the refrigerator. We ship our Prickly Cactus Pitas fresh/unfrozen depending on the time of year and the distance they need to travel. For convenience, freeze the Prickly Cactus Pitas as they arrive, if you are not planning to use them quickly. They can last up to 3 months in the freezer. To eat them, bring the desired amount out of the freezer and let them defrost at room temperature for about half an hour. When they are defrosted they will be ready to be heated and eaten.
Some of Our Prickly Favorite REcipes
Recipe #1 Prickly Cactus Chips with Guacamole
Are you hungry? This is the best way to pair your bag of Prickly Cactus Chips for a late snack or to complement lunch or dinner.
Ingredients:
Guacamole is very simple to make. For each ripe avocado add the following.
a pinch of salt and pepper
1 tablespoons of red onion
1 tablespoon of chopped tomato
1/2 tablespoon of fresh lime juice
A dash of cilantro finely chopped
Cut your avocado and obtain the flesh. Mash it with a fork. Sprinkle salt and pepper.
Add the other ingredients and mix. Let it sit for 10 minutes so that the flavors of the ingredients blend.
If you like spicy guacamole, add chopped jalapeno.
Enjoy!!!
Tip. to prevent the guacamole from turning brown before you serve, leave the avocado pit inside the guacamole mix and cover it
Recipe #2 Prickly Cactus Chips with Hummus
Snack wisely with Chipotle Prickly Cactus chips and your choice of hummus.
Ingredients:
Your preferred brand of Hummus
Your choice of Prickly Cactus Chips
Your choice of rainbow microgreens
The crunchiness of our prickly chips with the plant base protein of the hummus make them the perfect pair for a great snack, quick lunch or late snack.
Add some microgreens sprouts to enhance your taste buds
Recipe #3 Chipotle Prickly Cactus Pita with Rainbow microgreens
Warm your Chipotle Prickly Cactus Pita and make it pop. Cut it in half.
You can use a taco holder to hold it while you add the ingredients.
Add the Beets hummus and stuff with Rainbow Microgreens.
Enjoy the flavorful mix of ingredients with the spiciness of your chipotle prickly pita.
Ingredients:
Chipotle Prickly Pita
Rainbow Microgreens
Organic Beets and Dill Hummus
Recipe #4 Breakfast Prickly Cactus Pita with Eggs & Avocado
Mornings are sometimes hectic. We like to have a good start at breakfast,
Ingredients:
Eggs
Avocado
Basil Prickly Cactus Pita
Prepare your eggs as you wish.
Warm your Prickly Cactus Pita and make it pop.
Cut one of the edges so that you can stuff it with your eggs and avocado. Fold it and enjoy!!