PAPAYA
The amazing health benefits of papaya:
- Papaya is one of the commonly grown fruit trees. Not only providing a nutritious food source, papaya has long been considered a valuable medicine.
- Papaya has the scientific name Carica papaya L., 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, thin skin, many seeds.
- As for hermaphroditic flowers, they 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. fruit with thick skin and few seeds.
Medicine or multi-use
- Pressed papaya seeds can extract 25% of a edible oil. In todays medicine, people use the most dried papaya resin whose main ingredient is papain, an active ingredient that has many effects (digesting proteins, converting substances with albumin into peptones, and also making it easier to digest and detox)
- Patients with stomach ulcers, poor appetite, use cooked green papaya with chicken, eat every other day for a few weeks. Injured and bruised, immediately cut a green papaya fruit in half, pour it into a glass of white wine and place it on the stove to cook until it is cooked, then apply it to the wound.
- Ripe papaya fruit is sweet, very nutritious, laxative when eaten a lot, helps to digest meat substances, albumin substances. People who are constipated should eat a lot, if they eat a lot of meat, eggs and protein foods, they should eat papaya for dessert as well as a good digestive medicine.
- Papaya flowers are cooked and used as antipyretic, cough medicine (in combination with other herbs) and also used to treat worms.
- To treat pinworms, use a few pieces of papaya early in the morning, eat on an empty stomach, continuously for 3-4 days. Cooked papaya leaves in broth remove blood stains from fabrics and ulcers, wounds, and antiseptic. Papaya root is used to treat snakebite (wash, chew, swallow, take residue).
Nutritious food
- The green papaya fruit also has many uses: used to cook meat (especially bacon), boiled to eat, used to make jam, etc. Papaya leaves wrap the meat for a few hours to make the meat tender
- People grow ripe papaya as 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 710microgram, vitamin C 73mg vitamin B2 0.05mg, vitamin P 0.4mg minerals: calcium 24mg, phosphorus 22mg, iron 0.7mg, natrium 4mg, kalium 221mg. 100g papaya provides the body 45 calories.
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