Can be eaten raw.

Nutritional value of papaya

1. Papaya is warm in nature and sour in taste. It calms the liver and stomach, relaxes muscles and collaterals, activates muscles and bones, and lowers blood pressure.

2. The fruit of papaya is rich in more than 17 kinds of amino acids, calcium, iron, etc., and also contains papain, papaya, etc.

3. The content of vitamin C in papaya is very high, 48 times that of apples.

4. Papaya can eliminate toxins such as peroxides in the body, purify the blood, and has a preventive and therapeutic effect on liver dysfunction, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension.

5. Papaya has anti-tumor effects, can prevent the synthesis of carcinogen nitrosamines in the human body, and has strong anti-cancer activity on lymphoid leukemia cells.

6. The enzymes in papaya will help break down meat, reduce the workload of the gastrointestinal tract, aid digestion, prevent constipation, and prevent digestive system cancer.

7. Papaya can balance and strengthen the physiological metabolic balance of hormones in teenagers and pregnant women during pregnancy, and moisturize and nourish the skin.

Effects and functions of papaya

1. Strengthen the spleen and digestion: The papain in papaya can decompose fat into fatty acids; modern medicine has found that papaya contains an enzyme that can Digesting protein is helpful for the body to digest and absorb food, so it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating food.

2. Anti-epidemic and insecticidal: Papain and papain have anti-tuberculosis bacilli and parasites such as tapeworms, roundworms, whipworms, amoeba, etc., so they can be used to kill insects and fight tuberculosis.

3. Breast-tonifying and anti-cancer: The chymosin in papaya has breast-tonifying effect, and papaya has anti-lymphatic leukemia effect, so it can be used to breast-tonge and treat lymphatic leukemia (blood cancer).

4. Supplement nutrition and improve disease resistance: Papaya contains a large amount of water, carbohydrates, protein, fat, multivitamins and a variety of essential amino acids, which can effectively supplement the body's nutrients and strengthen the body. disease resistance.

5. Anti-spasmodic: The papaya contained in papaya pulp can relieve spasm pain and has an obvious therapeutic effect on gastrocnemius spasm.