Papaya For Your Smoothie And For Your Skin

Beauty Benefits Of Papaya

Papayas are those tropical funny looking fruits that most people don't know what to do with and why they should do anything with them in the first place. Whether this is your first time venturing out to try a papaya or even if this football shaped fruit is an old friend, I hope you can find a few new ways to bring this amazing vitamin filled fruit into your kitchen.

Here are some of the beauty benefits of papayas:

• Papaya is extremely cleansing internally.
  
  
• Helps clear up skin ailments.
  
  
• Rubbing ripe papayas on the skin softens and dissolves dead skin, repairs skin damage and wrinkles, lightens freckles, and clears the complexion. (Avoid the eyes.)
  
  
• The enzyme papain in papaya helps to exfoliate and remove dead skin cells, so try papaya in some of your favorite do-it-yourself beauty recipes.
  
  
  
  



 

Cucumber-Papaya Smoothie Recipe
From IncredibleSmoothies.com

Ingredients

• 1 medium organic cucumber with peel
• ½ large ripe papaya
• 1/4 avocado
• 4-6 ounces of filtered water
• A few ice cubes to chill, optional

Blend on high for 30 seconds until smooth. I added a couple slices of ripe avocado to make the smoothie creamier since both cucumber and papaya are water-rich fruits.

Pineapple Papaya Spinach Smoothie

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup peeled, cored and cubed pineapple
• 1/4 cup peeled, seeded and chopped ripe papaya
• 1/2 cup ice
• 1/2 bunch organic spinach

Banana Papaya Smoothie

Ingredients

• 1 cup nut milk
• 1/2 cup sliced peeled banana
• 1/2 cup chopped seeded and peeled papaya
• 1 tablespoon honey or agave
  

Combine milk, banana, papaya and honey in a blender and purée until smooth. Pour into a large glass and serve.