Scientific name: Carica papaya L. Common name: Papaya, Pawpaw, Tree melon.

Wong: Caricaceae papaya A height of 5-10 m kind of fruit is native to Central America. Unripe green When cooked, the flesh is yellow to orange. Taken orally, both fresh and cooked like papaya, etc. or be processed into other products Papaya is a common characteristic species. A dicotyledon 5-9-lobed leaves with a single cluster at the top of the stem. The stem and leaves a gummy white. Some fruit trees may also like one sex only. But there may be some early flowering in both sexes worked hard to 9 oblong may kilograms of raw green. And a white latex accumulates on the shell of the fruit flesh is yellow to orange. A small black seeds inside inedible. Papaya has 3 parts of the male gender is female and couple (hermaphrodite) will produce only male stamens. The female will produce a result which must be obtained before the pollen from the male to the results. The female partner can produce pollen on their own and are not within the same flower. Because it is both anther male and female ovaries. The papaya is grown mostly as a sexual partner. Papaya is a very popular up until the 3rd. Top of tropical fruits

Properties: Ripe - A drug or cure the disease scurvy as a laxative tires from the oil - a drug to kill the parasite root - diuretic use fruit as a laxative. A drug to Use cooking raw meat Vitamin C to the body to eat papaya roots as a diuretic.

CAUTION: For those who eat papaya consecutive lots for a long time may cause the color of the carotenoid to accumulate in the body too. The skin has a yellow substance in fruits contain protein, 0.5% fat, 9.5% calcium, 0.01% phosphorus, 0.01% iron, 0.4 mg / 100 g and other substances, a bit of papaya are sucrose, invert sugar. papain, malic acid and its salts Tartaric acid, citric acid and pectin lot (both in the oil) and the carotenoid pigment and vitamins.

Rubber papaya enzyme papain, which name is the name for the enzyme papain from papaya latex. Which contains papain 10% chymopapain 45% lysozyme 20%.