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Papaya fruits in a grocery store, Colatina .
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Papaya

Carica papaya

Fruit · Caricaceae family

  • 43kcal
  • 0.47 gprotein
  • 1.7 gfibre

Per 100 g, raw.

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What 100 g is made of

  • Protein 0.47 g
  • Fat 0.26 g
  • Carbohydrate 10.8 g
  • Water and other 88.4 g

“Water and other” is what is left of 100 g after protein, fat and carbohydrate (mostly water, plus ash).

Vitamins and minerals in 100 g

Bars show the share of the US adult daily value. The rank compares 260 ingredients.

Where it comes from

Native to: Central America, Mexico

  1. 1500sSpaniards brought papaya to the Old World in the 1500s.
  2. 1839Papaya arrived in Samoa from Tonga in 1839.Samoa, Tonga

Used in GlobeCooks dishes from: Asia (9)

Native range and history are drawn from Wikipedia and Wikidata by GlobeCooks.

More fruit

Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (food 169926), public domain. Identity: Wikidata Q12330939. Compiled by GlobeCooks.

Papaya: nutrition per 100 g and where it comes from · Open Data Finder