What papaya do you sell in the supermarket?

There are many kinds of papaya sold in the supermarket.

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Papaya belongs to Rosaceae, deciduous shrub or small tree. Bark often peels off, leaving clear marks. The leaves are elliptic-ovate, serrated, and the back of the tender leaves is tomentose.

Papaya is a kind of disease-resistant and healthy fruit, also known as Wanshou melon. It only takes about 6 months from transplanting to fruiting. It has an upright stem and keeps blooming all year round. Single fruit weight 1-3 kg, and each plant can produce about 70 kg a year. The highest fruit per plant 130kg. Papaya pulp is thick, sweet and delicious, and rich in nutrition. Its unique papaya enzyme can clear the heart and moisten the lungs and help digestion. It has strong anticancer activity on lymphoblastic leukemia cells. Papaya is resistant to storage and transportation. Natural storage for 1-2 months after harvest, bearing early fruits. In the first year, it achieved a high yield of more than 2,000 kilograms per mu, and planted 250 plants per mu.

Papaya, also known as pear, papaya. It belongs to Rosaceae and Chaenomeles. Deciduous shrubs or small trees originated in northern China, and they are cultivated all over China.

morphological character

Deciduous shrubs or small trees are 5- 10 meters above sea level, with gray bark and flaky peeling, and the new skin is smooth and yellow-brown. Branchlets are purplish red spiny branchlets. The leaves are oblong-ovoid, rarely obovate, 5- 10 cm long and 3.5-8.0 cm wide, with sharp tips, spiny sharp serrations at the edges, and glandular points at the tooth tips. Flowers are solitary in leaf axils, red or white, 2.5-3.0 cm in diameter, and have fragrance when they bloom on leaves at the same time or later. The fruit is melon-like, oval, long 10- 15 cm, dark yellow, woody and fragrant. Flowering in April, fruit ripening in September -65438+ 10.

Common species and varieties of the same genus

1. Begonia papaya, also known as papaya and peach. They belong to the same species. Small deciduous trees.

2. wrinkled papaya is also called sticky begonia and wild papaya. They belong to the same species. This shrub is two meters high.

3. Japanese papaya belongs to the same species. Shrub. Height 1 m.

Suitable environment

Temperate tree species have strong adaptability, like light, tolerance to semi-shade, cold and drought. The requirements for soil are not strict, and it can grow normally in fertile and well-drained clay and loam, avoiding low-lying and saline-alkali land.

English famous papaya

Alias begonia, pear with iron feet, wrinkled papaya and flowering papaya.

Source This product is the dry and nearly ripe fruit of the Rosaceae plant Chaenomeles sinensis (Sweet). In summer and autumn, the fruit is picked with green yellow stone, scalded with boiling water until the skin is grayish white, cut in half and dried.

Methods: Wash, moisten or steam thoroughly, then slice and air dry.

Features: this product is rectangular, cut in half longitudinally, 4 ~ 9 cm long, 2 ~ 5 cm wide and 1 ~ 2 thick. 5 cm. The outer surface is purplish red or reddish brown with irregular deep wrinkles; The lateral edges curl inward, the flesh is reddish brown, and the central part is concave and brown; Seeds oblate and triangular, often falling off. It's hard. The smell is slightly fragrant and sour.

distinguish

Take 65438 0 g of this product powder, add 65438±00ml of 70% ethanol, heat and reflux for 65438 0 h, filter, and test the filtrate as follows.

(1) Take 1ml filtrate, evaporate it, add 1ml acetic anhydride to the residue to dissolve it, pour it into a test tube, add 1 ~ 2 drops of sulfuric acid along the tube wall, and a purple color ring appears at the junction of the two liquids; The upper liquid is brownish yellow.

(2) Drop the filtrate on the filter paper, dry it, spray the aluminum trichloride test solution, dry it, and observe it under the ultraviolet lamp (365nm), showing blue fluorescence.

It tastes sour and warm. Entering the liver and spleen meridians.

Function is mainly used for calming the liver and relaxing muscles and tendons, regulating stomach and eliminating dampness. It can be used for damp arthralgia, soreness of waist and knees, vomiting and diarrhea, and beriberi edema.

Usage and dosage 6 ~ 9g.

Store in a cool and dry place, moisture-proof and moth-proof.

Note (1) When treating rheumatic joint pain, it is generally used for waist and knee pain, and is often combined with tiger bone. It is an important drug for treating vomiting and diarrhea. It can be used for cholera, vomiting and diarrhea of summer-dampness type, and can be combined with Coicis Semen, Cisha, Coptidis Rhizoma and Evodia rutaecarpa. In addition, this product is also an important drug for treating beriberi swelling and pain, and can be compatible with Evodia rutaecarpa, Perilla frutescens and Areca catechu. It can also promote digestion, and can be used for treating dyspepsia.

Excerpt from China Pharmacopoeia

Papaya fishtail soup

material

750g of papaya, 600g of pomfret tail, salt 1 teaspoon, 3 slices of ginger and oil 1 tablespoon.

The way of doing things

① Peel, peel and cut papaya.

(2) Take the oil pan, add the ginger and fry the whale tail.

③ Put the papaya into the pot, boil it with 8 bowls of water, then scoop up 2 bowls of boiling water and pour it into the pot, cook it with the fried fishtail for a while, then pour the fishtail soup back into the pot, simmer for 65,438+0 hours, and season with salt.

explain

Women are weak after childbirth. If they don't get proper care, they will lose their appetite and lack milk. Nourishing and benefiting qi, it is best to drink papaya fishtail soup, because whale tail can replenish spleen and benefit qi, and with papaya soup, it has the effect of promoting lactation and strengthening stomach, which is most suitable for postpartum women to drink.

Papaya has a concave-convex shape and a smooth skin. When the melon is ripe, the skin of the melon gradually changes from cyan to orange, and the flesh of the melon is orange-red with small, round and smooth black seeds in the middle.

First fry the tail of mandarin fish, then put it in two bowls of boiling water for a while, and then pour it back into the castle and cook it slowly. This will make the soup milky white and more delicious.

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Papaya milk juice

Ingredients: papaya 360g, two cups of fresh milk, appropriate amount of sugar, appropriate amount of crushed ice.

Method: Take fresh and ripe papaya, peel, core and cut into large pieces. Put papaya block, fresh milk, white sugar and appropriate amount of crushed ice into a blender and break it into thick juice, then you can drink it.

Efficacy: moisturizing and beautifying.

Note: it is forbidden for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.

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Papaya, peanut and jujube soup

material

750g of papaya, 0/50g of peanut/kloc-,5 pieces of jujube and 3/2 pieces of sugar.

The way of doing things

① Peel, core and cut papaya.

② Put papaya, peanuts, jujube and 8 bowls of water into a pot, add sliced sugar, and simmer for 2 hours after the water boils.

explain

Babies who eat human milk will grow stronger and healthier. However, some women will have the problem of insufficient milk when feeding their babies because of the lack of postpartum milk. If the mother wants to increase milk, she can drink papaya, peanut and jujube soup, which has a remarkable effect on increasing milk.

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Papaya mousse

Ingredients: a medium-sized papaya, 2 spoonfuls of fructose, 200g of low-fat yogurt, 1 spoonful of watercress powder, 1/4 cups of Liu Ding juice and 3 medium-sized passion fruits.

The way of doing things

Peel papaya, remove seeds and cut into pieces, mix papaya, fructose and yogurt, add watercress powder to Liu Ding juice and melt it with warm water (or microwave for 20 seconds), add Liu Ding juice (mix watercress powder! ) and passion fruit into the papaya "mixture", stir well, pour into four glasses and put in the refrigerator for refrigeration! !

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Papaya and soybean pork knuckle soup

Ingredients: one papaya, one trotter, four liang of soybeans, onion, ginger and a little cooking wine.

Exercise:

1. Scrape the pigskin clean, cut into pieces, blanch it with boiling water, and remove the fishy smell.

2. Boil a pot of boiling water and add onion, ginger and cooking wine. First, simmer the soybeans and pig's trotters for 2 hours.

3. Peel the papaya, remove the seeds, put it into the material in Method 2, and stew for another half an hour.

4. stew the soup, turn off the fire, put it in a bowl, and sprinkle a little salt before serving.

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Stir-fried beef slices with papaya

Ingredients: papaya 1, 3 taels of beef, soy sauce, cooking wine and 3 tablespoons of oil.

Exercise:

1. Add soy sauce and cooking wine to raw beef slices and marinate for half an hour;

2. The papaya is seeded and cut into pieces;

3. Heat oil in an oil pan, and fry the marinated beef slices for 40 seconds;

4. Take out the beef, filter the oil juice and return to the pot;

5. Stir-fry diced papaya in oil for a few times;

6. Put the papaya into the plate and spread the beef slices on the papaya.

Suggestion: You can fry papaya in oil, but not for a long time.

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Papaya waist bamboo tube

Ingredients: papaya, superior yaozhu, ham, soup, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, etc.

Method:

(1) Wash papaya, cut into pieces, and remove the pulp and seeds. Yaozhu is cooked with broth.

② Put the soup into each papaya, add Yaozhu, ham, a little refined salt and monosodium glutamate, steam for 40 minutes, and serve.

Features: the soup is delicious, the papaya is soft and waxy, the scallop is fresh and tender, and it is beautiful.

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Papaya chicken soup

Ingredients: drumsticks 1 piece, half papaya of medium size, cibotium 1 spoon, 3 pieces of angelica sinensis, and proper amount of wine and water.

Exercise:

1, blanch chicken legs, peel papaya and cut into pieces for later use.

2. Put all the ingredients into the rice cooker and stew for about 40 minutes.

Papaya is the most commonly used thing for breast enhancement. Paired with Angelica sinensis and Lycium barbarum, it can not only make the skin rosy, but also make the chest sharp. This is a refreshing but slightly sweet soup with fat at the bottom.

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Papaya milkshake

Materials:

Papaya 150g, milk 200c.c (about 1 mug), vanilla ice cream (1 small box), sugar 1 teaspoon (with or without).

Method:

1. Peel papaya and cut into pieces.

2. Add 200c.c fresh milk, sugar and ice cream into the blender and stir at medium speed for a few minutes.

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Stewed red dates and lotus seeds with papaya

Ingredients: papaya, red dates and lotus seeds.

Seasoning: honey, rock sugar.

Exercise:

1. Red dates and lotus seeds are cooked with appropriate amount of rock sugar.

2. Cut the papaya, remove the seeds, add red dates, lotus seeds and honey, and steam thoroughly in a cage.

Reminder: the skin of papaya is green, the pulp is orange, and it tastes sweet, which is suitable for all women who love beauty. When making this dessert, women who are worried about their weight can add calorie-free sweeteners to taste, and thin women can add honey to taste.

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Papaya milk

It is a popular popular drink in Taiwan Province Province. There are many ways to do it. Besides papaya and milk, many other fruits can be added. The common formula is: papaya half, egg yolk 1, honey 1 spoon, milk 200 ml, lemon half. Cut papaya into pieces, beat it into juice with milk and egg yolk, and add lemon juice and honey to make it taste better. If you add a little whisky, it can be used as a drink for dinner.

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Papaya tea

It is also very popular in Taiwan Province province. It is best to choose round immature female fruit to make papaya tea. Flatten one end to make the bottom of the pot, remove the seeds from the other end, put the tea directly, and then cover the shaved top. In a few minutes, you can taste papaya tea full of bitter and sweet fragrance.

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Papaya sparerib cup

This is a common practice in Hainan. After hollowing out papaya, put it into four or five pork chops, add a little minced garlic, pepper, oyster sauce, rice wine and other seasonings according to each taste, and put it in the pot for 40 minutes. Open the lid of the cup, steaming, meat mixed with papaya. This dish is simple and practical, and it can be cooked frequently. In addition, pork chops can also be replaced by steaks, lamb chops, etc.

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Roasted silver snow fish with papaya in chicken sauce

Ingredients: papaya 4 Liang (fragrant and ripe enough) cut into Japanese characters; Silver snow fish 6 is cut into Japanese characters. Chicken juice 2 Liang, chicken powder 1, monosodium glutamate, salt.

Production: soak papaya in hot water for later use. Heat the oil to about 160℃ in a wok, add the silver snow fish and fry until it is light golden yellow, then take out and drain the oil. Stir-fry the raw materials (onion and green pepper), add papaya, add two soups and half a catty of chicken juice, simmer for about 1 min, then add seasoning, add silver snow fish, roll with a spatula and simmer for half a minute.

Features: appetizing, fragrant and delicious.

The key: the papaya should be cooked fragrant, and the silver snow fish should be turned gently, not rotten.

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Stewed raw fish with papaya

Raw fish 1, papaya 1, almond 2, jujube 4, ginger 2.

1) Ingredients: 1 tablespoon wine, 1 teaspoon salt, 5 cups of boiling water.

1) Wash the raw fish, cut it into two sections, cut each section into small pieces, put it in boiling water, quickly blanch it and take it out.

2) Put raw fish, almonds, red dates, ginger slices and (1) ingredients into a stew pot and steam them in an electric cooker or steamer for half an hour.

3) Peeling papaya, removing seeds, cutting into pieces, and steaming in a pot for 10 minutes.

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Stewed beef steak with papaya

Ingredients: papaya 1, steak 200g, minced garlic, a little pepper, oyster sauce, broth and rice wine.

Exercise:

① Marinate the steak with salt, corn flour and eggs for 4 hours, and then cut into strips.

(2) Cut papaya into strips, and oil it with low fire first.

③ After frying the oil pan with minced garlic and pepper, put the cattle into the pan, and then add oyster sauce, broth and a little rice wine.

(4) Finally, thicken with white powder, and then add papaya and stir fry.

Efficacy: Papaya Stewed Steak combines protein and vitamins. Beef is warm, so it is advisable to avoid hot and dry gas when eating with fruit. Beef is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin A, while papaya is rich in vitamin C. Together, they can balance nutrition.

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Stewed papaya with north and south apricot

Ingredients: raw papaya 1, small ribs 300g, apricot10g.

Seasoning: salt 1/2 teaspoons.

Exercise:

1. Peel and remove seeds from raw papaya, cut into half an inch square, and set aside with small tendons.

2. Scald the ribs with hot water for 2 minutes to remove blood, then clean them and put them in a round bowl. Add raw papaya, apricot and water until 8 minutes are full.

3. After steaming 1 hour, add salt and steam 10 minute.

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Cold green papaya

Materials:

1 raw papaya, 4 peppers, 20g coriander, 2 tablespoons chopped flowers, and 1 teaspoon Kaiyang.

Seasoning: (1) salt 1 teaspoon (2) half a teaspoon of fish sauce, sugar 1 2 teaspoons, lemon juice1teaspoon.

Exercise:

1. Peel and seed the raw papaya, cut it into thin strips, grab it with salt and marinate it for 30 minutes, then rinse it with water for 10 minute, and press off the water for later use.

2, Kaiyang bubble hair chopped; Wash and chop pepper and coriander.

3. Mix all the materials with seasoning (2), put on a plate, and sprinkle with broken flowers to make granules.

Note: This dish is an appetizer.

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pawpaw

Materials:

Dry shark's fin150g, papaya 400g, rock sugar 250g, ginger 75g, clear water about1000g.

Method:

(1) Soak shark fin bones in clear water for 8 hours, and then change the water (change the water twice). Then mash the ginger with a knife, put it in a pot, boil it over medium heat, leave the fire, soak it for 5 hours, take it out and drain it for later use.

(2) Peel the papaya and cut it into angular shapes with a knife for later use.

(3) Put the prepared stainless steel pot shark fin bones into clear water, boil them with medium fire, then simmer for about 65,438+0 hours and 40 minutes, then add rock sugar and papaya, simmer for 20 minutes, so that the rock sugar is completely deepened, and then put them into 65,438+00 small bowls.

Features: sweet and mellow, sticky and refreshing, melon fragrance overflowing.

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Papaya clam oil

Materials:

20g of China wood frog oil, 250g of rock sugar, 500g of papaya, 50g of sugar and clear water1000g.

Method:

(l) Put clam oil in a large bowl, soak it in warm water at 70℃ for about 2 hours, and then change the water (change the water twice continuously). Then rinse with clear water, remove black spots and impurities, wash and drain, put in a bowl, add 50 grams of white sugar and 20 grams of clear water, put in a steamer, cook for about 1 hour for 30 minutes, take out and filter dry for later use.

(2) Peel the papaya, cut it into 6 strips with a knife, remove the melon seeds, cut it into angular shapes with a knife, put it on a dinner plate, steam it for 8 minutes, and take it out for later use.

(3) Wash the wok, put it into clear water, and boil the crystal sugar; Roll until the crystal sugar is completely dissolved, and when the noodle soup appears floating foam, remove the floating foam, then put the steamed clam oil and papaya pieces into the 10 small bowl respectively, and then pour the boiled sugar water on people.

Features: sweet and smooth, melon flavor and fragrance.

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Stewed sparerib with green papaya

Materials:

Raw papaya, half a sparerib, 600g onion, 2 ginger, and 2 slices.

Seasoning:

1. Soy sauce paste 3 tbsp wine 1 tbsp rock sugar 1 tbsp.

2. White powder 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1 teaspoon

Exercise:

1. Peel and remove seeds from raw papaya, wash and cut into hob blocks, and cut small ribs into 2cm * 2cm cubes for later use.

2. Heat the wok, add 1/3 cups of oil-fried shallots and Jiang Mo, add rock sugar and fry until golden brown, then add small ribs and fry until the skin is brown.

3. Add seasoning (1) and raw papaya into the pot, stir fry, submerge all the materials with water, cover the pot and stew for 45 minutes, then thicken with white powder and drop a little sesame oil out of the pot.

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Abalone-winged papaya boat

Ingredients: shark's fin150g, papaya, pig's feet 500g, ribs 500g, old hen 600g, pigskin150g, ham bone100g.

Ingredients: ginger, onion, wine.

Method: Add water to150g shark fin, put it in a boiling pot with ginger, onion and wine, take it out and let it cool with clear water; Take a big casserole with bamboo as the bottom, put the whole shark fin on the bamboo stick, and then put a bamboo stick on the shark fin; Chop 500g of trotters, 500g of spareribs, 600g of old hen, 0/50g of pigskin/kloc-and 0/00g of ham bone/kloc-into large pieces, blanch them in a water pot, drain the water, put them on shark fins with bamboo shreds, pour in 2,500g of light soup, and add Shaoxing wine, refined salt and water. Take papaya, cut off the top quarter, dig out the remaining three quarters of the pulp, carve patterns on the incision, carve it into a wooden boat, put the stewed shark's fin in the wooden boat and stew it in a steamer for about 10 minutes until the papaya smells fragrant.

Features: "abalone-winged papaya boat" is another shark's fin dish in new Chaozhou cuisine, which is characterized by delicious taste and unique shape.