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  • From: Paul Kosuth <prkosuth@ll.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] paw paw seeds
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:08:20 -0500

I did eat two them ...they were rather meaty and kinda flavorful but hard to open (I used a hacksaw actually)which brought my question since what I read was not definitive. I will eat no more but look forward to fruit in the pods next year. Been eating some ok walnuts and hickory and staying away from the pignut hickory (really harsh but meaty..cracked a few for the chipmonks and squrrals)

Thanks everyone for your help.

Paul
southern Illinois
On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Hannah Roessler wrote:


Once again, to echo what someone posted earlier, I think that there may be a mix up going on in this discussion between "pawpaw" and "papaya" (which some people also call pawpaw). I have also frequently nibbled on PAPAYA seeds to avert parasitic problems (also makes a very nice pepper when dried and ground, kind of horseradish- like), but I have heard that PAWPAW seeds are actually quite rough (slightly toxic) on the system when taken internally.


Hannah


From: bwaldrop@cox.net
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:04:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [permaculture] paw paw seeds

This is pretty interesting. Do you eat them raw?
Chew them or crack them or swallow them whole?

Bob Waldrop, OKC
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Pittman" <scott@permaculture.org>
To: "'permaculture'"
<permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] paw paw seeds


When I am in the tropics I eat a few paw-paw seeds
to kill intestinal
parasites that I may pick up - particularly worms.
I eat four or five a day
and have never suffered any ill effects.

Scott Pittman
Director
Permaculture Institute
www.permaculture.org
-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On
Behalf Of Paul d'Aoust
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:25 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] paw paw seeds

Further to what Jordan says, PFAF says the seeds
contain toxic
alcaloids, and are emetic (i.e., make you barf):

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Asimina+triloba

El vie, 17-10-2008 a las 16:53 -0700, Jordan Fink
escribió:
I would say "NO"
paw paws are already slightly carcinogenic, and
their seeds are very
poisonous from what ive read.

-j


Can I eat the seeds of the paw paws now that
the fruit stage has gone
by (which I missed..) I am able to pick up
some of the dried up pods
with seeds. Are they ok to eat?

Paul K..southern Illinois
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