The Pawpaw Fruit is delicious and nutritious and looks like fat, short bananas. Their tropical taste blends perfectly with their custardy texture and fragrant aroma. Pawpaw is very high in vitamin C, antioxidants, food energy and is much higher in minerals compared to peaches, grapes and apples. A good source of linoleic and linolenic acids and mainly has unsaturated fatty acids. It has a much higher content of amino acids in a good balance and also higher in carbohydrate, protein and fiber.
Paw paw trees are small, tropical~looking and is capable of rapid growth, under ideal conditions. The paw paw tree is also rich in acetogenins which are found throughout the tree. The twigs contain the most concentrated amount of acetogenins, especially when they are harvested during the time when they are most biologically active. Acetogenins are active compounds that affect the production of ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) in the mitochondria (the powerhouse) of the cell. ATP is our cells’, and hence our body’s, major source of energy. Acetogenins modulate the production of ATP.