There aren't too many things growing in the desert but cacti certainly do flourish here. And some of them are even edible like the prickly pear variety pictured below.
There's a small company in Phoenix that makes Cactus Candy with juice from prickly pear cactus.
They sell these delicious treats in a cool retro looking box with an original design from 1969. The sugar coated jelly candy is very yummy, tastes like, well... cactus LOL and looks like this:
