Carica papaya belongs to the fruits and vegetable class, it is highly abundant
and is commonly known as pawpaw in Nigeria. About 30-100% of the fruits and vegetables are been wasted in Nigeria (Oluwalana, 2006). It is an invaluable plant that is prevalent throughout tropical Africa. Nigeria continues to be the third largest producer of papaya globally, and its level of production in Nigeria has been estimated to be 765,000 metric tonnes (FAO, 2007). Practically every part of the papaya plant is of economic value. Its uses range from nutritional to medicinal. Both fruit and seed of the ripe papaya are edible. The usefulness of fruits, roots and several parts of this plant has been largely reported with some minor negative effects (Onibon, 2007). However its seeds are currently undervalued in this part of the world and so there are no standardized processing methods available at present.