- Papaya in Mexico is known as the fruit of good health.
- It is used in the food industry to soften meat, in textiles to macerate wool and cotton fibers and in leather tanning.
- The seeds, although they are usually discarded, are edible and can be used crushed to dress salads. They have a very spicy flavor reminiscent of mustard.
- Cristóbal Colón called papaya “fruit of angels”. Legend has it that when they arrived in America, Columbus's crew used papaya to calm indigestion after a great feast by observing how the natives of Cuba and Santo Domingo ate large quantities of meat and fish followed by this fruit.
