the benefits of eating papaya fruit

Papaya (Carica papaya L.), or betik is a plant originating from southern Mexico and the northern part of South America, and is now widespread and widely planted throughout the tropics for its fruit. C. papaya is the only species in the genus Carica. The name papaya in Indonesian is taken from the Dutch language, "papaja", which in turn also takes from the name Arawak, "papaya". In the Jawapepaya language it is called "katès" and in Sundanese "gedang".

Papaya is eaten by meat, both young and cooked. Young fruit meat cooked as vegetables. Cooked meat is eaten fresh or as a fruit cocktail mixture. Papaya is also used leaves as a vegetable and meat tenderizer. Young papaya leaves are eaten as fresh vegetables (after being swayed with hot water) or made as a wrapper. By Manado people, anointed papaya flowers become commonly eaten vegetables. Papaya sap (can be found in stems, leaves and fruit) contains the enzyme papain, a kind of protease, which can soften the meat and change the conformation of other proteins. Papain has been mass produced and has become a trading commodity.

To produce papain, the raw material that needs to be prepared is papaya gum. While the auxiliary material is in the form of water and sulfite. Water is used as a papaya gum thinner, while sulfite is used as a chemical solvent.

Extraction of Fruit Sap Taking fruit sap is done on fruits that are 2.5-3 months old. Fruit that is in the wiretapping period must remain dependent on the main stem. Tapping is done up to seven times with a four-day tapping interval, so the time needed for tapping is around 28 days. The right time to tap is in the morning before sunrise or in the evening before sunset.

Papaya leaves also have medicinal properties and the juice is used in traditional medicine to increase appetite.

Benefits of papaya fruit

Papaya has many benefits because papaya contains vitamin A which is good for eye health, papaya also facilitates digestion for those who have difficulty defecating. In some places half-cooked papaya is made into sweet fruit salad with bengkoang, pineapple, apple, star fruit, water guava fruit. Papaya sap is also quite expensive because papaya sap can be processed into papain flour which is useful for household and industrial needs. In papaya herbal medicine can prevent cancer, [5] constipation, eye health.

Benefits of papaya seeds

Doctor Wahyu Triasmara explained that papaya seeds are useful as antioxidants in the blood because they can reduce cholesterol and LDL levels, and increase HDL levels (high density lipoproteins). Papaya seeds have the effect of hypolipidemia for the treatment of hyperlipidemia caused by high levels of vegetable fat or cholesterol because the seed extract contains alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, anthraquinones, and anthocyanins. According to him papaya seeds can be consumed by blending and served as juice, or brewed like brewing coffee after first drying and blending.