In the era of 4.0, just sitting at home and surfing the phone, you can freely explore and discover countless new things. In particular, the famous food review groups on Facebook are where we witness a series of “delicious and strange things” from all over the world.

Recently, a girl posted a photo of a very strange papaya in the group. In the post, she shared: “What is this phenomenon, everyone? What is that white thing? Is this papaya edible? I don’t dare eat it. I peeled it and still put it in the fridge?”

The strange papaya is making the online community extremely curious. – (Photo: Nim Vu)

Immediately, this extremely “strange” papaya attracted the curiosity of many netizens. It is known that this is not the first time that a white core has appeared in the inside of a papaya. In the world or even in Vietnam, there have been many similar cases, and people often jokingly call this phenomenon “pregnant fruit”.

In fact, this is not the first time a papaya has carried many other small fruits inside.

According to an explanation from a world-class scientist, the white core is called the “embryo” of the papaya tree. The papaya fruit born inside the papaya fruit is like an embryo inside an embryo, but this is quite rare. It is possible that during pollination, the papaya tree’s cell division occurs abnormally, leading to the formation of a small papaya fruit inside. It is white because it cannot absorb sunlight.

This is considered a natural phenomenon that is not too rare in the world, sometimes bean sprouts can even grow inside papaya.

This is just an abnormal development of the papaya embryo, it does not affect the nutritional value of the fruit nor does it produce toxins as many people think. However, these papayas are often considered to have a bland taste, not as delicious as normal fruit.

According to many people, papayas with white core inside are often not as fragrant and sweet as normal ones.