General Information
NamePapaya
Scientific NameCarica papaya
DescriptionThe papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae. It is native to the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from southern Mexico and neighbouring Central America. It was first cultivated in Mexicoseveral centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classical civilizations. The papaya is a large, tree-like plant, with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 m (to ft) tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk. The lower trunk is conspicuously scarred where leaves and fruit were borne. The leaves are large, 50–70 cm in diameter, deeply palmately lobed, with seven lobes. Unusually for such large plants, the trees are dioecious. The tree is usually unbranched, unless lopped. The flowers are similar in shape to the flowers of the Plumeria, but are much smaller and wax-like. They appear on the axils of the leaves, maturing into large fruit - 15–45 cm long and 10–30 cm in diameter. The fruit is ripe when it feels soft (as soft as a ripe avocado or a bit softer) and its skin has attained an amber to orange hue. Carica papaya was the first transgenic fruit tree to have its genome deciphered.
Primary IDFOOD00041
Picture41
Classification
GroupFruits
Sub-GroupTropical fruits
Taxonomy
SuperkingdomEukaryota
KingdomViridiplantae
PhylumStreptophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderBrassicales
FamilyCaricaceae
GenusCarica
Speciespapaya
VarietyNot Available
ITIS ID22324
Wikipedia IDPapaya
Composition
Compounds
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CompoundStructureContent Range AverageReference
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Macronutrients
MacronutrientContent Range AverageReference
Ash0.15000 - 500.00000 mg/100 g125.173 mg/100 gDTU, USDA
Carbohydrate9900.000 - 12000.000 mg/100 g10950.000 mg/100 gDTU
Fat300.000 - 300.000 mg/100 g300.000 mg/100 gDTU
Fatty acids100.000 - 100.000 mg/100 g100.000 mg/100 gDTU
Fiber (dietary)0.000 - 2100.000 mg/100 g1050.000 mg/100 gDTU
Proteins700.000 - 700.000 mg/100 g700.000 mg/100 gDTU
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References
Content Reference— Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004).
— Saxholt, E., et al. 'Danish food composition databank, revision 7.' Department of Nutrition, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (2008).
— U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page.
— Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181.