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• n  tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
• n  large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

• For centuries the Indians of Latin America have wrapped their tough, fresh-killed meat in leaves from the papaya tree before cooking it.
• The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree.
• Does the fruit extract really help back pain ? The papaya is a wondrous fruitabundant, tasty and nutritious.

• papaia
• pawpaw
• papaya tree
• melon tree
• Carica papaya

News & Articles

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• Papaya-clay combo could cut cost of water purification in developing countries
  An inexpensive new material made of clay and papaya seeds removes harmful metals from water and could lower the cost of providing clean water to millions of people in the developing world, scientists are reporting. Their study on this "hybrid clay" appears in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
  June 12, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Andy Ricker of Pok Pok on the Truth About Thai Chilis
  School is in session. The Pok Pok and Whiskey Soda Lounge chef-owner answers seven food questions at Chopsticks and Marrow , and after revealing that bee larvae and red-ant eggs are surprisingly "delicious," Ricker dives into decoding the mystique of ordering "Thai spicy" at restaurants, in which diners implore the kitchen to hit all curries and papaya salads with every chili pepper in the ...
  June 10, 2013 - New York Magazine