Increasingly, on tables along with an apple you can find mango, feijoa and papaya. Exotic fruits are opened to lovers of healthy nutrition from a new perspective, giving not only refined tastes, but also many substances necessary for the body.
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About fruit
Papaya externally and in chemical composition resembles a melon. It grows on tall trees, which begin to bear fruit in the first year. Ripe papaya of uniform yellow color, the barrel can be a light orange hue. To the touch, papaya should be soft and slightly springy. If the fruit is in dark spots, greenish or wilted - do not take it. In an unripe fruit, the juice is poisonous, looks like thick milk, and only when ripe it becomes transparent and does not cause harm.
Papaya application
Most often, papaya is eaten raw, but can be added to cereal, roasted or baked. During heat treatment, the fruit begins to smell like fresh hot bread (therefore, papaya is also called "bread tree"). Being a hearty and tasty independent dish (or an additive to it), papaya brings a lot of useful substances to the body.
But papaya is often still used in medicine and cosmetology, extracting from it the enzyme papain, which copes with stomach diseases, and plant extracts that preserve youthful skin.