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CREATING MEAT TENDERIZING USING PAPAIN FROM PAPAYA BY THE PROCESS OF EXTRACTION

INTRODUCTION

The papaya(from carib via Spanish,) papaw or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant carica papaya, the sole species in the genus carica of the plant family cariceae.it has native to the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from southern Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classical civilizations.

The papaya is a large, tree-like plant, with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 m (16 to 33 ft) tall, with spirally arrange leaves confined to the top of the trunk. The lower trunk is conspicuously scared where leave sand fruit were borne.

The leaves are 50-70 cm (20-28in) in diameter, deeply palmately lobed with seven …show more content…

Soon after the latex has oozed out, it will coagulate. Some will coagulate right on the rind of the fruit. This may be scraped and added to the latex collected in the cup.

The collected juice is then dried under the sun, and turns into a crystal-like product which may be pulverized and stored in a container for kitchen use, maybe in a shaker used for black pepper.

Simply sprinkle the pulverized papain over the meat. Let it stand for sometimes before cooking to tenderized it.

A fruit may be tapped a number of times, every five days or so until no more latex ooze out. One agriculturist says that the native papaya, which bears a lot of milky juice.

ECONOMIC AND NUTRITIVE VALUES OF PAPAYA

1. The green papaya is commonly used as a vegetable boiled with chicken tinola, sauted with pork or shrimps or combined with chicken ginataan.

2. The raw, green papaya when grated and allowed to pickle, becomes an appetizer called “achara”.

3. The unripe papaya when boiled, mashed and mixed with calamansi juice, salt and pepper, and sugar, serves as savory sauce.

4. The ripe papaya fruit which is sweet and tangy is eaten as a dessert.

5. The ripe papaya fruit is also used as a main ingredient in fruit salad.

6. The ripe papaya fruit is an excellent source of vitamin A,B and G. fair amount of iron and calcium are also present. An

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