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Ice.Maiden | 00:31 Sun 26th Jul 2009 | Food & Drink
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papayas Ok to eat?
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Supposedly eating the seeds with the fruit, will enhance the sweet taste of the papaya.

Like papaya, the seeds contain an enzyme that tenderizes meat, so meats marinated in papaya seeds or cooked with them will be very tender.

Those same enzymes will also breakdown proteins in mosquito bites, so rubbing a mosquito bite with papaya seeds eases the itching.

There are a lot of weird health claims to papaya seeds. In one culture they are eaten as a aprodesiac. On the other hand there are studies that say they reduce fertility. One guy said he dried the seeds and fed them to his rabbit, so ... They are used as dewormers.
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Hi pink - thanks.
I've got a liking for them at the moment, and have one for breakfast each day, but I swallowed 2 or 3 of the seeds which were buried down in the flesh. I'm still here.....so guess it can't be too bad!!

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