However, if you're lucky enough to spot papaya at the grocery store, consider adding it to your cart. The fruit is delightfully versatile—it can be eaten unripe or ripe—and has a delicate ...

Papaya (Carica papaya) is a tropical American fruit that is green when unripe and light or deep yellow-orange with orange or ...

Papita, also known as papaya, is a tropical fruit with a vibrant orange hue, sweet taste, and soft texture when ripe. Raw papita (unripe papaya) has a green skin and firmer flesh, commonly used in ...

Ripe papaya is also good in tropical fruit salads and puréed in smoothies. Use green papaya as a vegetable or turn into pickle. It is particularly good raw in Thai salads such as green papaya ...

but so many recipes say unripe papaya that it makes me wonder if that’s all they are — unripe yellow ones. Simone The first papaya I remember eating isn’t a great foodie memory, I must say.

The Thai dish of som tam, or green papaya salad, is wonderfully refreshing. In restaurants, it's served as the cook makes it. But Thailand’s street stalls and specialist som tam shops will ...