Do Not Eat Pawpaws

Date: 2025-07-28 11:59:54

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Are pawpaws safe to eat? Pawpaw fruits, like soursop, guanabana, sweetsop, sugar apple, cherimoya, and custard-apple, contain neurotoxins that may cause a neurodegenerative disease.

This is the video I mentioned about soursop: Coffee Put to the Test for Treating Parkinson’s Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/coffee-put-to-the-test-for-treating-parkinsons-disease/).

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