This papaya in coconut milk is one of my favourite dessert during Ramadhan.
Since I was kid my mother use to served this fresh fruit.
Top Health Benefits of Papaya
Why eat papaya? It's delicious, refreshing and will support your health in the following ways.
1. Promote Good Digestion
Perhaps the most well-known benefit of papaya is its digestive support. Papaya, particularly the skin and the unripe, green varieties, contains the enzyme papain, which helps digest proteins. (Papain is often used to make digestive enzyme dietary supplements as well.)
Papaya also contains nutrients, such as fiber and folate, which are known to help prevent colon cancer. Its fiber, for instance, helps bind with and rid your body of cancer-causing toxins in your colon.
2. Fight Heart Disease
The nutrients in papaya help prevent the oxidation of cholesterol in your body. This is important because when cholesterol becomes oxidized it can stick to your blood vessel walls, leading to plaque that can cause heart attacks and strokes.
3. Anti-Inflammatory Properties
The enzymes in papaya are known to lower inflammation in your body. This is effect is particularly beneficial for people with asthma, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or burns.
4. Support Your Immune System
Because papaya is so rich in vitamins A and C, it is an excellent fruit to eat to keep your immune system functioning properly.
5. Protect Your Eyes and Lungs
Eating fruit like papaya has been found to protect against macular degeneration, the most common cause of vision loss among the elderly, along with promoting lung health (particularly if you're exposed to a lot of secondhand smoke).
6. Fight Prostate Cancer
Papaya is rich in lycopene, which is known to prevent damage to DNA and fight prostate cancer. In fact, studies have shown that men who eat the most lycopene-rich fruits and vegetables (including tomatoes, apricots, pink grapefruit, watermelon, papaya, and guava) were 82 percent less likely to have prostate cancer than those who ate the least.
Papaya is so rich in nutrients that its benefits do not end there. Other pluses to eating this powerhouse fruit include:
It's good for you skin, hair and nails
When applied to your skin, it may fade freckles
The folate it contains may prevent anemia
The skin can be used as an external treatment for wounds or areas that will not heal quickly
You can apply papaya to your skin to relieve the itch and irritation from mosquito bites (source;sixwise.com)
Here the recipe of Papaya in coconut milk;
1 kilo papaya cut into pieces (cubic)
Mostly my grandmother or my mother served papaya dredged by table spoon.
Coconut milk syrup:
1 liter coconut milk boiled with 1 pandan leaf and 150 gram sugar (if you like sweet put some more sugar)
Serve papaya with coconut syrup and ice cube.
