Papaya

The amazing health benefits of papaya:

Papaya is one of the commonly grown fruit trees. Not only does it provide a nutritious food source, but papaya has also long been considered a valuable medicine.

Scientific Classification

Papaya has the scientific name Carica papaya L. and belongs to the papaya family (Caricaceae). They are polygamous: Male plants have male and hermaphroditic flowers, and female plants have female and hermaphroditic flowers. Fruits from female flowers are usually round, hollow in the fruit, with thin skin and many seeds.

Hermaphroditic flowers are pear-shaped in length, sometimes with deformed fruits because the number of carpels is not the usual year, but only 2 or 3, sometimes up to 9-10 carpels combined. The fruit has thick skin and few seeds.

Medicine or Multi-use

Pressed papaya seeds can extract 25% of edible oil. In today's medicine, people mostly use dried papaya resin, whose main ingredient is papain, an active ingredient that has many effects (digesting proteins, converting substances with albumin into peptones, and making digestion and detoxification easier).

Patients with stomach ulcers and poor appetite can use cooked green papaya with chicken, eating it every other day for a few weeks. For injuries and bruises, immediately cut a green papaya fruit in half, pour it into a glass of white wine, cook it until it is cooked, and then apply it to the wound.

Ripe papaya fruit is sweet, very nutritious, and acts as a laxative when eaten in large quantities. It helps digest meat substances and albumin substances. People who are constipated should eat a lot of papaya. If they consume a lot of meat, eggs, and protein foods, they should also eat papaya for dessert as a good digestive medicine.

Papaya flowers are cooked and used as antipyretics, cough medicine (in combination with other herbs), and also used to treat worms.

To treat pinworms, eat a few pieces of papaya early in the morning on an empty stomach, continuously for 3-4 days. Cooked papaya leaves in broth can remove blood stains from fabrics and can be used for ulcers, wounds, and as an antiseptic. Papaya root is used to treat snakebites (wash, chew, swallow, take residue).

Nutritious Food

Green papaya fruit also has many uses: it can be used to cook meat (especially bacon), boiled and eaten, or used to make jam, etc. Papaya leaves can be used to wrap meat for a few hours to tenderize it.

Ripe papaya is grown as a nutritious food. In 100g of edible ripe papaya, there are: water 87.1%, protein 0.5%, lipid 0.1%, total sugar 11.8%, vitamins B1 0.03mg, equivalent to vitamin A 710 micrograms, vitamin C 73mg, vitamin B2 0.05mg, vitamin P 0.4mg, minerals: calcium 24mg, phosphorus 22mg, iron 0.7mg, sodium 4mg, potassium 221mg. 100g of papaya provides the body with 45 calories.

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