Papaya is a papaya family, papaya genus of plants. Small evergreen softwood tree, up to 10 m tall.

The fruit is orange-yellow or yellow when ripe. Pear-shaped or nearly spherical, the flesh is soft and juicy, with a sweet taste. The fruit grows on the tree and looks like a melon. Fruits and flowers year-round.

Papaya is native to tropical America and is grown in tropical and warmer subtropical regions of the world. Originally from central and southern Mexico, now mainly distributed in Southeast Asia, Central, and South America, and other places.

Papaya fruit mature can be used as a fruit, and immature fruit can be used as a vegetable. Can also be processed into preserves, fruit juice, jam, preserved fruit, and canned. Seeds can be pressed for oil. Both the fruit and the leaves are used medicinally.

Papaya has a high edible value and is beneficial to human health.

1. Papaya is good for beauty. Papaya contains rich papaya enzymes, vitamin C, vitamin B and calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals. It is also rich in carotene, protein, calcium, and citric acid.

It can promote spleen and stomach digestion and improve constipation. At the same time, it can promote the metabolism of the human body and achieve the role of beauty and skin care.

2. Papaya helps milk flow. Papaya contains amino acids, papain, rennet, and other nutrients, among which rennet has a certain milk function.

3. Papaya is nutritious. Papaya contains a lot of water, carbohydrates, protein, fat, a variety of vitamins, and a variety of essential human amino acids, which can effectively supplement the nutrients of the human body.

4. Improve obesity. Papaya contains papaya enzyme, papaya enzyme of green papaya is about 2 times that of mature papaya. Can break down protein, sugar, and fat, remove fat, and promote metabolism, thereby improving obesity.

There are many ways to eat papaya, eat raw, do fruit salad, press papaya juice, and so on are more nutritious than cooked to eat.

Papaya contains a large number of vitamins and traces of elements, to promote the metabolism of the skin has a great role, and papaya itself is relatively mild, so in the hot summer eating a piece of papaya, not only thirst but also can relieve the heat.