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Papaya fruit is eaten for its flesh, both when young and when it is ripe. The immature fruit pulp is cooked as a vegetable while the ripe fruit pulp is eaten fresh or as a mixture of fruit cocktails. Papaya is also used leaves as a vegetable and meat tenderizer. Young papaya leaves are eaten as fresh vegetables (after being blanched in hot water) or used as wrappers for name buntils