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noun
A torpedo, oval, or pear shaped fruit. The fruit bears on a large leafed tree up to 10m tall. When green, it is cooked as if a vegetable. The flesh contains an enzyme named papain that serves as an effective meat tenderiser. When ripe it is yellowish-orange in colour. The flesh is bright orange, soft, and sweet. The insides are hollow containing a lots of seeds with each seed contained in a small liquid filled sac. The seeds and the fluid surrounding them have a bitter taste.
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Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
10 years ago

trinidad paw paw

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
dr.trini
5 years ago

delicious

Guyana
Guyana
Miah
4 years ago

Great for smoothies 😁😁😁. Some Guyanese would call it Papaw/Papaya.

St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Kitts & Nevis
Yasmin
4 years ago

Pawpaw

St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Chloe
2 years ago

In St.lucia we call it pawpaw too