Fruits

Pawpaw

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Updated: 2010-11-08 16:30

Pawpaw is one of the top four fruits in the Lingnan area and ranks among the top three herbaceous fruits coming from the tropics and is ranked alongside bananas and pineapples in flavor and popularity. The fruit is also highly palatable and rich in nutrients. It can be eaten raw, stewed or served with various ingredients. Pawpaw fruit stewed with rock sugar is effective in clearing away heart fire, moisturizing the lung, and treating laryngitis and other ailments. Unripe fruit can be soaked in saccharin solution for making vegetable soup or cured with brine to make "salty and sour pawpaw fruit".