A delicious fruit and constipation cure to boot!

MauiRob

MauiRob

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Meridol papayas. Absolutely one of our favorite fruits. They are huge--maybe 2-3 lbs. Ripe when they get soft and look more yellow/orange than green. Beautiful pinkish red flesh. Very succulent and sweet.

They will often cure constipation within minutes of eating them. Beats the heck out of metamucil:thumbup:

I can get them at our regular grocery store here in Southern Maine, so I'm sure alot of you can also.

Here's another awesome fruit that's in season right now: young coconuts!!! They are white. sort of shaped like a yurt. and wrapped in plastic. You MUST try these if you haven't yet. They taste nothing like the old sour ones you may have tried with the brown husks.

get one of these and take a sturdy knife (paring knife size) and cut a small square hole for your staw. Sip and enjoy!! When you're done with the juice grab a khukuri and chop the top off (be very careful!!) the flesh is soft as butter and sweet and nutty. Orgasmic is the only way to describe the taste (of BOTH the "milk" and the meat/flesh). The best technique for chopping the top off is to chop just enough on one side to pierce both soft outside and shell then turn and repeat all the way around. See pic below and you can kind of see how they did it.

There you have it: your greengrocer report from MauiRob's kitchen:D
 

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I,ve never seen the young coco-nut . I,ll take a look around the ritzy fruit stores . I,m a fan of coco-nut meat . Even the older stuff . Used to get it as a kid sweetened . It sold as popeye spinach .
 
Due to the nature of the prime vendor system with regards to food, we often wound up with some pretty interesting stuff to eat on the ship depending on which port we'd last hit. Papayas and mangos were often available. Once I'd aquired a taste for them and learned how to judge the ripeness, I developed a bit of a habit; sometimes I would eat three or four after dinner, or even just skip dinner altogether and go right to the fruit. So when Rob says this...

MauiRob said:
They will often cure constipation within minutes of eating them. Beats the heck out of metamucil:thumbup:
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...he's also giving you a subtle warning: one is enough. Know when to say when, or you will be sorry. ;)
 
I have the same luck of loosening things up if I eat enough Mango :)

The Mango trees were all around our families property down in Puerto Rico, and when it was their season, I could eat them to my hearts content (hmmm, maybe that's why I loosened so well) ;) ........... LOL! :)

The coconut subject cracks me up, since it reminds me of some of my late teenage years. When I lived in Puerto Rico for a while, one of my uncles gave me a crash course on how to get a coconut down to the center nut using a machete. Unlike the coconuts that one usually buys at the grocery stores that have already been taken down to the center nut, the ones I learned on were both green and not so green, but always like 3 times bigger than the nut only. I had them fresh from the palm trees.
I ended up getting pretty good at it after living there for some time, but how I made it back with all my digits,.......... I don't know!
Those first few I did were done pretty darn ugly like, would have made any of you cringe! But, like anything else, practice makes perfect ;)

My uncle would have had to do some "splaining" to my mom if I would have chopped off a finger or two ;)
 
If you squeeze lemon or lime juice on mangoes or papayas (or for that fact cantaloupe or honeydew ) it will lessen or abate the "helpful" benefits of these fruits. Of course the amount you eat will also have an effect.
 
Heya Rob

Coconuts and papaya are very common fruits from my part of the world and sure brings back memories from my childhood when me and my accomplice brother would climb coconut trees to harvest them. Looking back, it was probably pretty damned dangerous hanging onto the tree with just your legs while twisting the fruit off. Papaya trees are a different story though as the trunk is so weak it wont even bear a small child's weight. I remember breaking off the whole top portion of a papaya tree once - still have the scars at the back of my knee from the unexpected landing. These days the only way I'll be climbing a coconut tree would be if I had a pack of pit bulls homing in on me.

Some other traditional uses for the fruits:
Here in Malaysia, the juice (papain) from the papaya leaves and young fruit is often used as a meat tenderiser. Coconut sap can also be fermented to produce a palm wine called "toddy".
 
Young coconut, Myers dark rum, pineapple juice. Add hot sun, pool, or beach and a fishing rod and you are all set.
 
soured coconut juice is also used in the traditional washing of keris to remove rust prior to recolouring them with lime juice and arsenic.....

i've heard coconut meat is a good cure for the runs, maybe it can be used in conjunction with the papaya to neutralise it's laxative effects.

the active ingredient in papaya is strangely enough, called papayin (sp?) and is basically the same as one of our normal digestive enzymes and is frequently used as a suppliment for people with digestive troubles. that is why it is used as a 'natural' tenderizer as it partially digests the meat to soften it....
 
Kronckew thats neat about the Papaya . Next time I eat a steak that is still trying to run its last race I,ll stick some papaya on it .

If its good for Kens it must be good for Barbies ?
 
Kevin the grey said:
Kronckew thats neat about the Papaya . Next time I eat a steak that is still trying to run its last race I,ll stick some papaya on it .

If its good for Kens it must be good for Barbies ?
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probably more effect if you marinate it BEFORE cooking it as it takes a while to act, tho i guess afterwards it would just be a fruity sauce & help it soften after y'all masticate & swaller it.
 
Most of my meat is ground or done with moist cooking . I gave up the oven hook up to install a clothes dryer . All this in aid of my work ethic .
My slow cooker gets a fair amount of use . If I make some jerky from tough meat I may try a little Papaya in the marinade .
 
Papain can be found in any meat tenderizzzer.
Obviously, it comes from Papaya.
Papaya is recommended for stomach cancer patients.

Bromelian is another. It comes from the Bromeliad which the most popular, for eating, is the Pineapple..

I grow both here.
You can see some in the photos.
http://www.zkoi.com/photo_facility.html

Lesson over.
;)
 
Gringogunsmith . I realise having to get up to go to work is a toughy for anyone . I do somehow feel if the work stresses don,t bother you the ambience must lower the old blood pressure a few notches .

We have a couple of Koi pond facilities in the area . It is always a pleasure to wander around the grounds . None of them approach the paradise I see in your pictures .
 
MauiRob said:
Meridol papayas.
They will often cure constipation within minutes of eating them. Beats the heck out of metamucil:thumbup: /QUOTE]

OK. That solves that issue.

Now have you got somthing that can be eaten for a good nights sleep?
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Now have you got somthing that can be eaten for a good nights sleep?
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Kava Kava or valerian root--check with a qualified herbalist or Naturopathic pysician these are powerful and not for everyone.
 
Steve Poll said:
MauiRob said:
Meridol papayas.
They will often cure constipation within minutes of eating them. Beats the heck out of metamucil:thumbup: /QUOTE]

OK. That solves that issue.

Now have you got somthing that can be eaten for a good nights sleep?
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oddly, plain old ordinary lettuce has a soporific (sleep inducing agent) in it, so a good large lo-cal salad before bedtime might be just the thing as long as you are not mixing in any stimulant herbs like coffee or other veggie stuff.
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"Here in Malaysia, the juice (papain) from the papaya leaves and young fruit is often used as a meat tenderiser"

Interesting. I know that the inner most part of the pineapple fruit contains a lot of enzymes that work that way as well. I read a travel story a guy wrote on his first trip to hawaii. he went nuts and ate 2 or 3 pineapples right in a row---or tried to. he ate the middles as well and soon his tongue felt funny. He spit out some juice and it was quite red: blood from his dissolving tongue.

I have felt that sensation of stinging irritation after eating too much pineapple, but not from papaya. However, I have eaten a too green papaya and had to run full tilt for the bathroom:o They will clean you out alright!
 
oddly, plain old ordinary lettuce has a soporific (sleep inducing agent) in it
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The best way to take advantage of this is to juice the lettuce. I used to make a VERY effective stress remedy drink by juicing a whole head of green leaf lettuce with a 1/4-1/2 head of green cabbage and 4-5 leaves of jacinta kale.

Yes it tastes a bit odd, but it really works! Very good for you too.:thumbup:
 
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