✨Carica Papaya✨

= aka papaya or pawpaw!

Growing in our very own yard 🥰🌿💚🌱😍

This beautiful plant bears not only delicious fruits, but also offers a multitude of health benefits in the leaves, the skin of the fruit, the seeds + the meat! 🌿🙌🏽💕

Some benefits include:

• Improving blood sugar control for those living with diabetes
  

• Increasing blood platelet levels when leaf extract is offered, most important to those with viral infections like dengue fever which decreases platelet count + has strong anti- malarial properties
  

• Supporting digestive function, aiding in IBS relief + the seeds act as a vermifuge = expelling worms from the body
  

• Containing nutrients that help reduce inflammation including: papain, flavonoids, vitamins = A+C+E+K+B, magnesium, calcium, sodium magnesium + iron
  

• Supporting hair growth + scalp health due to its anti-fungal, antioxidant richness
  

• Promoting healthy, youthful skin, wound healing, gentle exfoliation
  

• Believed to inhibit the growth of prostate + breast cancer cells

• Acts a cleansing agent for the liver, aids in relieving menstrual pain + more...

✨Pro tip: when you eat your papaya, save your seeds! The seeds are so beneficial. Lay them out to dry (or place in oven on low heat for 30 mins or more as needed to dry them) + once dried, place in a pepper grinder for easy access! They add spicy, tasty + peppery addition to your dish. Consider adding this wonderful flavor to any hot | cold savory dish, hot | cold sweet dish for balance or even drinks both hot | cold! Benefits are wonderful. Taste is much more subtle once dried. You will not regret this! Enjoy ma-babies! 💋 💚🌿💚✨