Papaya is cultivated for its ripe fruits, favored by tropical people, as breakfast fruit, and as an ingredient in jellies, preserves, or cooked in various ways; juice makes a popular beverage; young leaves, shoots, and fruits cooked as a vegetable. Latex used to remove freckles. Bark used for making rope. Leaves used as a soap substitute, are supposed to remove stains. Flowers eaten in Java. Papain, the proteolytic enzyme, has a wealth of industrial uses. It has milk-clotting (rennet) and protein digesting properties. Active over a wide pH range, papain is useful in medicine, combatting dyspepsia and other digestive orders. In liquid preparations it has been used for reducing enlarged tonsils.
Autorius: | Himadri Panda |
Leidėjas: | DISCOVERY PUBLISHING HOUSE PVT LTD |
Išleidimo metai: | 2017 |
Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 402 |
ISBN-10: | 9350568349 |
ISBN-13: | 9789350568347 |
Formatas: | 250 x 175 x 26 mm. Knyga kietu viršeliu |
Kalba: | Anglų |
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