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  • From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] paw paw taste -pawpaw-associated illness
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:45:48 -0500

I dry much of my fruit as I can't eat it all fresh nor do I have the freezer space.

A memorable experiment was dried pawpaw.
Slices of beautiful, ripe fruit set in my dehydrator. Dried to perfection. Imagine my delight when I first tasted the dried fruit. Sweet, fruity, leathery, but easy to chew. I ate a single piece then went out to do evening farm chores. Within an hour I started feeling bad. Abdominal pain then a building nausea.

I was not able to eat dinner that evening. Felt well in the morning.

The next evening as I unloaded the dehydrator I ate another piece of dried pawpaw. Again within an hour, the same deal- pain, nausea. I had to go lay down for the night. Again, no dinner.

Maybe some people do not feel well after eating the fresh fruit and stop enjoying it over time.

I have NO idea why dried pawpaw does this to me while I can still eat (and enjoy) fresh pawpaw.

Any ideas?

Elizabeth

On 11/24/2020 8:25 AM, Lee Reich wrote:
I think it takes a certain amount of eating pawpaws to lose your taste for
them. I’ve noticed this in other once-pawpaw-enthusiasts also.

Lee
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On Nov 24, 2020, at 5:47 AM, Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net> wrote:

I have only tasted two named varieties Mango and Shenandoah. They were both
delicious, sweet, fruity, bright without the taste/smell of overripe banana
(tang) that the wild fruits contain.

There was a 6 year gap between tasting them so I cannot compare their tastes
directly. I do remember the mango surprised me with its deliciousness.

In my experience, the selected varieties are worth the effort. That is why I
keep trying to buy grafted trees and to graft my sprouts.

Elizabeth

On 11/24/2020 5:41 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:
I believe that some people can taste the slight toxic tang of paw paws and
some can't. Those that can't think they are absolutely delicious and those
that can are never big fans. Unfortunately, like Lee, I fall in the latter
group.

I've never tasted a Peterson variety, though.
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