Nutritional, therapeutical, and pharmaceutical uses of papaya: A review

Ravi Kant Upadhyay

Abstract


This review article explains the nutritional and medicinal properties of papaya plant. This plant contains many
natural antioxidants found in its leaves, fruits, and seeds. It contains a variety of chemical compounds that exhibit
high antioxidant properties. Papaya skin, pulp, and seeds are important sources of bio-organic compounds such as
carotenoids and polyphenols, papain, chymopapain, and cysteine proteases. The plant contains gallic acid, betacarotene,
calcium, protein, carbohydrates, phenol, phosphorus, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin C, vitamin E, and
tannin. The decoction of male papaya plant flowers helps to increase the level of insulin and stabilize the blood sugar
of diabetic patients. Carica papaya seeds significantly reduce progesterone levels and disrupt the estrous pattern
and reverse tissue changes in the uterine-ovarian tissue. This article highlighted the use of papaya as a source of
natural antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-parasitic, antioxidant, and immunomodulatory biological components. The
leaves of the plant are antiviral, anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, anti-angiogenic, anti-parasitic, antibacterial, antiviral,
and anti-malaria. This plant has nephroprotective, anti-fertility, and anti-implantation thrombosis effects. Green
papaya fruit and its latex are rich in papain, which softens meat and has a wide range of industrial uses.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22377/ijgp.v18i03.3591

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