When are papayas ready to eat fresh?
• Papayas are at their best flavor when they give to a gentle squeeze. This is usually at 3/4 to full yellow skin color. Since papayas work well as a breakfast, lunch, snack, or dinner and desert food, different ripeness are suitable depending on your chosen use or recipe. Papayas are sweeter the riper they are harvested. Once harvested, the sugar content, measured by total dissolved solids or brix, does not change. So best sweetness is achieved by harvesting at the most color that still allows for time to get the fruit to the consumer. We harvest at the ripest stage that will get to you, anywhere in the USA in two to three days, in a firm state. As important as this brix level is, the tropical flavors develop until fully yellow, and when the fruit gives to a sight to gentle squeeze. This tropical papaya flavor, which varies by variety, gives most people a perception of sweetness as well as the distinctive flavor that makes papaya unique. You will generally receive our papayas at 30-50
