Papaya for good health

We all know that fruits are really good for our health. The papaya is one of the favorite of natural product lovers for its dietary, stomach related and therapeutic properties all through the world. This papaya is known as the fruit of Christopher Columbus Angels. Its Botanical title Carica Papaya Linn.

    As ripe papaya is sweet and delicious, it is a very popular fruit for all ages in the family. Due to its versatile medicinal properties, papaya is considered as a nutraceutical fruit. Everybody knows that it is much simpler for the body to handle or assimilate vitamins and minerals. 

History appeared Papaya is local to tropical America. Topographical dispersion development of Papaya is done nearly in all parts of world.  It is now cultivated in almost all tropical regions of the world. It is inborn to tropical America and developed on huge scale, in South Africa, Europe, Hawaii, Florida, Philippines, Tanzania, Australia, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.

    Papaya tree is fundamentally short lived tree. Papaya plants happen in one of three sexual shapes female, male and hermaphrodite. These are expressed within the plant’s blossom. (a) The female blossom does not form natural product unless pollinated. (b) The Male blooms have no ovary and don't create a natural product. (c) The Hermaphrodite contains both ovum and pollen tube and self-fertile. study show they does not form natural product but sometime its by done nature. Papaya tree produce many circular natural products that can have around 5-50 cm in length and 10-30 cm in diameter. The normal sized papaya weighs approximately a pound. The fruits are green when raw and turn light yellow or red when ripe. The natural product are huge oval in shape and in some cases called pepo- like berries, since they resemble melon by having a central seed depth. The fleshy part around the central seed cavity is large. Fruits are borne axillaries on broad stem, commonly single but in some cases in small clusters. It takes 140-200 days to mature depending on the temperature. 

    The papaya convincing people for her countless benefits since 100 years or more then. From ancient times the juice of the leaves, bark, roots and ripe or raw fruits of the papaya tree have been used as a medicine for physical ailments. The seeds extricate and papain protein empower has anti-fungal action. illustrated in-vitro anti-amoebic actions by the papaya seeds. There are two important compounds that help digestion such as- Papain and Chymopapain. A Huge of biological active compounds are contained to the carica Papaya. Papaya fruit is a good source of folate, fiber and vitamin A,C,E and K, It is in low sodium, cholesterol free as well as fat free. A one pound weighted papaya has contained about 70-80 calories.

In advantage of Papaya fruit -  fresh fruit, medicine, Papaya milk, pies, Jams, Jellies, Juice, Ice-Cream, skin smoother Soap, snacks and so on.