Papaya offers numerous health benefits, including aiding digestion, boosting the immune system, promoting healthy skin, and promoting against chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease due to its rich content of vitamins, fibre, and antioxidants.

It also contains the digestive enzymes papain, which can relieve constipation and other digestive issues.

Culinary suggestions...

Papaya's uses range from eating the ripe fruit raw in salads and smoothies to cooking green papaya as as vegetable in curries and stews.

Additionally, papaya is featured in desserts like ice-cream and jams, can be used as a base for salads and chutneys, and can be eaten in its halved form as an edible serving bowl.