Superfood Papaya Boats {vegan, nf}

Superfood papaya boats with loads of topping options! Pack your fruit with unsweetened coconut yogurt and enjoy this healthy dairy-free, paleo breakfast.  Papaya is a sweet, juicy fruit super fruit.  This breakfast is also gluten-free, whole 30 compliant, and sugar-free.

Papayas are a glorious fruit. And when in season its flesh is filled with sweet hydrating flavor.  The taste is familiar like healthy cotton candy!  Papaya boats are even more fun and paired with coconut yogurt, sliced tiger nuts, chia seeds, hemp seeds, blueberries, and strawberries.

It's hard to believe I once hated this fruit.  In fact, I couldn't understand why anyone liked it.  As it turns out each time I had this fruit in the past it wasn't in season, and that makes all the difference.  Instead of going into a long story about hating this fruit, I'll tell you when I first fell in love with it instead.

HOW I FELL IN LOVE WITH PAPAYA

I was in Puerto Rico with the family back and every morning we would head to the breakfast buffet where they always had a running stream of fresh papaya juice.  I always walked past it.  I just genuinely thought papaya juice would be gross.  I was so wrong.

The juice was so sweet but at the same time ridiculously refreshing.  It tasted so pure I couldn't get enough of it.  So there I was sitting by the pool sipping on Papaya juice, a fruit I swore I would never touch again and double fisting this glorious juice over a glass of bubbly.  Who was I?!

Not only did it taste good but It felt good to drink.  I noticed that my acid reflux was well maintained that weekend and I was surprised to learn that the papaya fruit {is also known as the Angel Fruit} had LOTS of healing benefits.  Benefits that aid in the reduction of acid reflux, and indigestion.

Benefits of Papaya

• Loaded with vitamin C, beta carotene, potassium, folate, fiber, vitamin A, vitamin E, and Lycopene
• Papayas are known for their enzyme papain which helps in aiding digestion
• Soothes acid reflux, indigestion, and symptoms associated with reflux
• Helps calm nausea
• High in fiber and water content so it can prevent constipation and promotes regularity
• Used in skin face masks because it hydrates the skin, refreshes the skin
• Reduces acne, fades skin spots, and more!

After that trip, I was changed forever, well at least in the papaya department.  I no longer regarded this fruit as gross, in fact, a total 180.  Such a 180 that anytime I heard someone say they hated this fruit {and trust me, many did and still do} I went into that mode where I became a total papaya promoter pushing the benefits and goodness of this fruit onto others.

I soon found it delicious in salads, with frozen desserts, like an ice pop, as a juice, in smoothies, and topped with all kinds of superfoods and especially paired with coconut yogurt!  P.S. Eating it ripe and fresh is number 1!  But if you need to keep it in the fridge longer and want to bring out its beautiful flavor, simply sprinkle some lime juice on it and store it for a day.

It's an awesome breakfast or a super sweet snack.  It's filling because of all the toppings and it curbs your brain from running towards something filled with artificial sugars, additives, and processed foods.  It's totally healthy, but tastes so good you don't feel like you're eating healthy.  Did I mention this sweet has no added sugar at all?  Yup!  And you'd never know it!  I personally love eating whole foods.  In fact, I try and incorporate as many whole, unprocessed foods as possible into my diet.

And whenever I have indigestion, reflux or any kind of nausea my natural go-to's are Papaya and Aloe.

MORE PAPAYA RECIPES

Tropical Papaya Popsicles

Watermelon Papaya Popsicles

 

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