Papaya Benefits
No Nutritional Pills or Supplements Can Replace Natural Papaya Benefits
Did you know Papaya has another name? Yes, it has; it is called the ‘Power house of Nutrients’! Just as the name suggests, papaya; a commonly available fruit in the market has amazing benefits adhered to it. Coming under the category of the famous ‘orange fruits’, it is rich in antioxidants like Vitamin C, carotenoids, Vitamin B, magnesium, fiber etc. and often recommended by doctors and nutritionists to include papaya in one’s daily diet. But the sad thing is some don’t eat papaya at all and among those who eat, there is hardly a few who are actually unaware of the nutritional benefits of papaya.
To help you appreciate the fruit a bit more, we have listed down a few papaya benefits:
- It helps fight cancer. Its rich content of antioxidants like Vitamin C, E and beta-carotenes helps the body fight cancer. It helps develop immunity to prevent cancerous cell from growing and shield the body.
- This goes out to all those who face frequent indigestion; Papaya has proteolytic enzymes like papain and chymopapain which help a lot in digesting food. These enzymes are used in treating cystic fibrosis and pancreatic conditions also.
- Boosts up the immune system
- The enzyme called arginine increases male fertility by increasing blood flow near and around the penis. This enzyme is used in a concentrated form by doctors to treat erectile dysfunction as well.
- If you worry day and night that your skin is becoming loosing and ageing prematurely, eating a papaya daily can do the trick in helping you fight anti-ageing. Digestive enzymes present in papaya helps absorb nutrients of all other food you take in a better way.
- Papaya can prevent risks of colon cancer. Rich in antioxidants and fiber, papaya when taken, travels to the colon and binds itself with the cancerous toxins and flushes them out.
- If you are a heart patient, you must be aware of papaya benefits and for those who are not; papaya can prevent heart attacks and strokes by preventing the cholesterol from oxidizing which otherwise builds up eventually leading to such fatal heart conditions.
- If you have inflammation on your body due to any accident or other reason, turn to a papaya diet. Papaya armed with its protein-digestive enzymes breaks down the inactive proteins in the dead tissues and cells thus reducing the inflammation. Papaya is often suggested by nutritionists and doctors to treat skin injuries and diseases like ringworms, psoriasis, warts etc.
- Papaya can also be beneficial for those suffering from chronic ailments like asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis etc.
List of papaya benefits can go long for ever like this but these are a few well-known ones.
So, before reading this article you must have wondered in the market, picked up a papaya just because you felt life eating it and ate it without giving a second thought about papaya benefits but we are sure, now that you know about various papaya benefits, the next time you eat a papaya you will appreciate it more with each bite!