Search Results for: Fresh Fruits of the genus pimenta
are cooked as a vegetable. the fruits are a source of flavoring used in candies, jellies, preserves, and ice cream. shallow cuts on the surface of fully grown but unripe fruits cause a milky sap or latex to ooze that is collected, dried, and termed "crude papain." papain has many industrial uses, as
, and facial creams. miscellaneous uses papaya has been used widely in folk medicine for many ailments: the juice for warts, corns, cancers, tumors, and thickened skin; the roots or their extracts for cancers of the uterus, syphilis, the tropical infection, hemorrhoids, and to remove mineral concretions...
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