• Description

Vernacular Names: kapayas

Parts utilized as vegetable and availability: fruits

Cultivated/Foraged: Planted, Gathered

Market presence of vegetable:marketed

Habitat: lowland, homegarden, field, along the road, farm, anywhere

Availability: all year round;
harvestable daily / weekly

Other uses: ripe fruit for snacks;
cure for constipation (fruit);
tonsilitis and constipation (leaves and immature fruit);
whitening soap, for skin smoothening;
dengue (male flower) boiled male flower for dengue;
removel of callus (leaves);

Dishes:salad, raspador (atsara), adobo, ginaan, tinolang manok