Papaya habitually cultivated for ornamental, astringent fruit, boiled or impregnated with sugar for food, medicine has a decoction, phlegm, smooth gas, dysentery effect. Fruit skin is still smooth after drying, not wrinkled, so there are light skin papaya called. Wood is hard and can be used as a bedpost. Papaya listed in the first national "medicine and food" list, the fruit is rich in 19 kinds of amino acids, 18 kinds of mineral trace elements and a large number of vitamin C and other ingredients. Papaya fresh fruit contains more tannins and organic acids, sugar content is relatively low, so that its taste is sour, astringent fruit flavor, should not be eaten raw, boiled or impregnated with sugar for food, mainly for medicinal purposes.