29 September 2011

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Food for the papaya: America's forgotten fruit or fruit of the future?

So, what's the heck a papaya?

Recently, I heard about a secret snack. Kayaker, who told the water in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., paddling me mango-like fruit that grows on the banks of the Potomac - a dotted and comfortable skin, which conceals a delicious treat.

A tropical-like fruit here really? Yes. It is a tropical family of trees only moderate. You can not buy the papaya in stores, so was the only way to eat them for years, directly from the tree.

I was intrigued. So I me on the hunt for a papaya decided.

D.C. naturalist guide Matt Cohen showed me how to find them.

We have the Billy Goat trail on the Maryland side of the Potomac River. "Wow" was cost, the first word out of my mouth when I have a we found on our hike. It's kind of mango-meets the banana... with a little touch of melon.

Although you have not heard perhaps, the papaya has throughout history. Thomas Jefferson was at Monticello Pawpaw. And when he was Ambassador to France 1786, he had sent papaya seeds of friends there. Probably, he wanted his friends to impress exotic from America.

Lewis and Clark wrote in their journals, that they were very much like the papaya. At one point during their expedition in 1806, she put on Pawpaw when other provisions ran low. From Michigan, West Virginia, people have towns and Lakes of the papaya named and even.

But the papaya has not before been commercialized recently. This is one reason why you don't see it in the supermarket. So far there is to sell only a few orchards to farmers markets. These advances are largely thanks to the work of the plant scientists Neal Peterson.

He spent the last 35 years, appearance, and taste more like a fruit that we would buy to make breeding the papaya. He was selected and varieties, which become bigger, with more meat.

After tasting his first wild papaya 35 years ago, he had a eureka moment.

"It was only a revelation," he says. Peterson thought that each piece of the opponents have had the papaya a perfect peach or Apple fruits, the thousands of years of breeding.

Why this had with someone not the papaya? "I could make only immediately the leap of the imagination,", he says.

And three decades later, he has some to show much. His Pawpaw are sold in a few orchards and farmers markets.

And now it's beyond novelty. Study of the nutrients in the papaya is a food scientist at Ohio University, Rob Brannan. So far, he published a study, that the number of antioxidant in the fruit be pretty high.

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Pawpaw can such as mangoes, but they are unlike other tropical fruits, in North America.

Abby Verbosky for NPR Pawpaw can such as mangoes, but they are unlike other tropical fruits, in North America.

"It is the same as a cranberry about" or a cherry Brannan says.

If scientist a 'health Halo' of the papaya, Brannan says, there would be commercial lift the fruit. It has already happened. Pomegranate juice, anyone?

"Yum - wonderful flavor," Joan foster said after tasting their first papaya in Olney farm market recently. A try you will wait for a long time. You are just a few weeks in the year - and season is almost over the papaya.

So if you are intrigued, beer, papaya does come back again tomorrow for papaya recipes find sorbet... and papaya a few tips.

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