A Positive Addition to Your Diet Program. •Nopal, a plant with an exotic name and beneficial properties, actually curbs your appetite and helps decrease the absorption of fats and sugars from food, which makes this supplement incredibly helpful for weight loss as well as the maintenance of both healthy blood cholesterol and blood sugar levels.

Used by Native American tribal Indians for generations, Nopal Cactus has recently been referred to as a "vegetarian chitosan" because of it's properties of binding to dietary fats. Nopal Cactus also helps with sugar normalization and decreases appetite with a bulking effect.

The purported benefits of fresh nopal juice include lowering blood sugar, healing wounds, and lowering cholesterol. Human studies on the nopal cactus and its ability to treat or prevent disease are limited. Nevertheless, many studies have confirmed the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of the plant