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Sharon Naluwende, a nutritionist at Mulago Hospital says papaya’s benefits are wide-ranging due to the vitamin A, B, C and E it contains, as well as other antioxidant qualities that research has proved over the years.

Papaya, alongside foods like carrots and pumpkins, is one of the best sources of beta carotene. (Photos by Umar Nsubuga)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalist @NewVision

Cut open a papaya fruit and immediately the orange to pink flesh surrounding black beady seeds set the taste buds racing.

The bright orange colour is a manifestation of one of

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