Thursday, April 21, 2011

Thai Papaya

Papaya (Papaya) fruit is a type of approximately 5-10 meters originated in Central America. Be brought into Thailand in the Ayutthaya period. Ripe fruit with green When cooked, the meat will have yellow to orange. Popular bring fresh eating and cooking and take it like green papaya salad, etc., or be processed into other products also.

Generalization
Papaya is a plant (Sometimes mistaken as a tree) leaves look like leaves 5-9 Single Point Island group at the top of the trunk. The petioles and leaves the gum is white. Papaya trees, some flowers may have only one sex. But there may be some interest from both sexes may have the oval may be hard up to 9 kg of raw green And a white latex points in the shell of the ripe fruit flesh is yellow to orange. Tiny black seeds inside inedible

In addition to bringing fresh papaya to eat, then we can also be cooked like green papaya salad, sour, etc., or to fermentation to soften the meat too. Because of the papaya enzyme called Take propane (Papain), which can be used to enter this enzyme in the finished powder, fermented meat. Sometimes, to make medicines for people with digestive problems may indigestion.



For nutrients in the papaya. Are as follows.

Papaya meat cooked food nutrients per 100 grams of ripe papaya.
0.5 grams protein.
0.1 g fat.
Calcium 24 mg.
Phosphorus 22 mg.
0.6 mg iron.
4 mg sodium.
Times amines 0.04 mg.
Boeing profit terms were 0.04 mg / Win.
Niacin 0.4 mg.
ASCORBIC ACID's Big (vitamin C) 70 mg.