Papaya once a poor man’s fruit has now become the fruit of the era. People of all class prefer to add papaya as their main dish or side dish in their food course any time But the problem with papaya is that it is highly perishable and difficult to preserve in fresh form for longer period at ambient temperature and humidity. To prevent these losses and also for better utilization of the fruit processing and value addition is very essential.

   The raw fruit is mainly used for making curries, soups, either alone or combined with other vegetables. The cooked papaya tastes like the cooked product of cucumber.

   The mature fruit can be suitably processed to give different products like tuti-fruity, pickle, jellies and candies, while the ripe fruit can be processed to canned papaya, papaya cocktail, papaya nectar, canned papaya pulp, papaya slabs, and papaya toffee.It can be blended with other fruit pulps to use either in juice or....