The health secret of pawpaw seeds

Some benefits of pawpaw seeds to the body

Fruits and vegetables have been proven to be great benefits to improve human health and serve as prevention of illnesses due to their nutritional contents which include, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.

Taking the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables each day has also been proven to reduce the risk of chronic diseases.

Fruits are rich on dietary fibre and serve as overall healthy diets which help reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease. Fibre is an important nutrient for proper bowel function. It helps reduce constipation and diverticulosis.

Pawpaw is a fruit that is beneficiary to the body in different ways. The benefits of the fruit are not limited to the fleshy yellow fruit but the seeds are of great benefits to the body.

The edible yellow flesh of pawpaw when sliced open contained seeds that are mostly wasted by people due to lack of knowledge of its benefits to the body. While most people throw them away, pawpaw seeds are not only edible, small amounts of them in your diet can be surprisingly good for you.

Although chewing half a teaspoon of the seeds is not like eating pawpaw fruit because they give different taste. The fleshy fruit is sweet while the seeds are a bit bitter and spicy, they have a strong flavor.

The seeds, medicinal value has been discovered to contain nutrients that help heal cirrhosis of the liver and improve kidney health, preventing renal failure and its antiinflammatory properties help treat arthritis and joint disease. It contains an alkaloid called Carpaine that kills intestinal worms and amoeba parasites.

The many benefits to the body cannot be underestimated. It is said that a mediumsized pawpaw contains approximately 120 calories, 20 percent of the daily value for fiber and more than three times the vitamin C one needs for each day.

As a precaution, pregnant women should not use pawpaw seeds or the enzyme rich green pawpaw powder. This warning on their use would also extend to mothers who are breastfeeding.

Additionally, while pawpaw seeds do have strong anti-parasitic properties, they may be too powerful for young children’s gastrointestinal tracts, so a doctor should be consulted before giving them to infants.

There is also some animal research suggesting that eating pawpaw seeds may temporarily but greatly reduce a man’s fertility to the point that would make pregnancy unlikely. I’ll leave it up to male readers whether they currently consider that a good or bad thing.

Patients using blood thinning medications like warfarin or aspirin should consult their doctor before they eat pawpaw seeds regularly as papain may increase the actions of these drugs Source: Superfoodprofiles.com