“Pawpaw is a part of food, sweet like sugar, yellow like Fanta, everybody like pawpaw, pawpaw.” This is a common nursery school song in some parts of the country. It’s a song that says a bit about the goodness of pawpaw. Indeed, pawpaw has numerous health benefits.

Pawpaw is one of wonderful enzymatic fruits of nature; very good for improving digestion. It contains a lot of phytochemicals like papain which is good for pain, abortifacient, antacid, appetiser, choline, beta carotene, alkaloids, histamine etc.

Papaya leaves are a powerful immune booster when ground into powder. It can be combined with goat weed for the same purpose (equal quantity). You can drink pawpaw leaves juice for fever, malaria and low platelets.

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