The fruit stand at our local farmers market used to bring paw paws for a couple of years. They stopped this year - couldn't make a profit. A couple years ago, we planted seeds from the paw paws and now have five growing on our property. They are very slow growing. Still tiny things, not mature enough to flower or fruit yet. Unfortunately, even a perfectly ripe paw paw makes me sick to my stomach! I looked up nixtamalization and found much on nixtamalizing maize but nothing about paw paws. Do you have a reference? What else might I do to make them digestible for me?
The fruit stand at our local farmers market used to bring paw paws for a couple of years. They stopped this year - couldn't make a profit. A couple years ago, we planted seeds from the paw paws and now have five growing on our property. They are very slow growing. Still tiny things, not mature enough to flower or fruit yet. Unfortunately, even a perfectly ripe paw paw makes me sick to my stomach! I looked up nixtamalization and found much on nixtamalizing maize but nothing about paw paws. Do you have a reference? What else might I do to make them digestible for me?