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The wonders of GREEN PAPAYA Fruit

Many people eat papaya as a fruit. To me papaya taste good when is ripe and mature from the tree.  Now we can hardly get organic papaya as most papayas are treated with ethylene gas to quicken the riping of the fruits.

Eating papaya fruits also help with my constipation problem. In cooking, I used papaya juice to tenderize meat. There are some people believed consuming unripe papaya chicken soup help ladies to have well develop breasts. Well, I like papaya soup for its sweet taste and delicious flavor.

This is awesome when green papaya shredded and make into hot Thai style salad like this picture below…..

One day when I was buying papaya at the market, someone shared to me that green papaya boiled with green tea leaves can helped people that have joint pain, uric acid or gout.  Its a good formula and its good for all even for those without gout. Maybe you can too share to people in need.

How To Prepare Green Papaya Cube With Green Tea!

Cut green papaya into small cubes, place into the water, bring to boil, then add green tea leaves, similar to the tea-making process. Clinical tests show that this brings better effects for treatment of gout, subject to frequent drinking of this formula.

Mr Liu Qing, Chief of the Rende Town in Tainan, was suffering for years from severe stomach pain around the posterior wall of stomach. He used green papaya as a tea pot to prepare the family tea daily, after a month his chronic disease condition was much improved. His family members with high uric acid were also healed by the same papaya tea. For this Mr Liu planted a lot of papaya to share with relatives and friends with similar sickness.

According to Mr Liu, in selection of the Green Papaya as tea pot, pick those whose shape are fat and short, with larger capacity. Cut off the top part of the papaya, clear away the seeds, open a small hole at the upper side wall to facilitate pouring of tea. Create a small ventilation hole at top cover, put in the tea leaves, pour in boiling water, place the top cover back to papaya, you may use the toothpicks to secure the top cover. Similar to normal process of preparing tea.

Liu like to use Oolong tea as the taste is good. He was pleasantly surprised that the stomach pains he suffered for many years was healed after a month of drinking tea from the green papaya pot, without taking any other medication. He passed some green papaya leaves to a friend who worked at a Medical Center to test and analyse the content. The tests confirmed that the healthy enzyme present in papaya is beneficial to human health. Now as papaya in Mr Liu’s orchard is yeilding suitable size fruit, he would share the fruits with family and friends.

Xu Fuchang, an experienced papaya farmers, the green papaya refers to papaya that is not ripe, where the skin is still green in colour. Generally, the papaya takes about four months to fully mature and ripe, but then healing effect would be lost after it is fully ripe. Green Papaya should be harvested when the papaya is approximately three months old, when the fruit is still firm, and the “papaya milk” contains high papaya enzyme (papain) and other healthy ingredients. Not only the green papaya can be used in tea drinking, you may also cut them into cubes, and boil with the ribs, or even slicing the green papaya into fine long pieces and fried with garlic, very tasty, and no adverse effects on the human body.

A note to share!

Papain is most potent when the papaya is still unripe and green. It remains at its peak enzymatic activity for 4 to 6 months, then rapidly diminishes.

Does Papaya Enzyme Work?

The papain in papaya enzymes will help with the body’s own natural process of breaking down protein and help maintain a healthy intestine. It works well as a digestive aid and may also help with constipation or stomach upsets. Papain is also thought to be a natural anti-inflammatory and is used in some painkiller medications. It may also help the immune system and has been used to treat ulcers and food allergies in some cases.

In rare cases certain people may be allergic to papaya enzymes. Payapa contains a substance called chitinase which is associated with latex fruit allergy syndrome. Those with latex allergies may be allergic to papaya too. Organic fruits which have not been treated with ethylene gas are less likely to have allergy-causing compounds.

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