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Benefits Of Papaya For Skin, Hair And Health

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Benefits Of Papaya For Skin, Hair And Health Papaya is available throughout the year. It has a delicious sweet taste with a soft butter like consistency. This pear-shaped fruit is usually 7 inches long. The inside flesh is rich orange in colour with a slight shade of pink or yellow. Papaya has a lot of hidden benefits for skin, health and hair. Not just the fruit itself, but other parts of papaya also are very beneficial. Like ‘Papain’ commonly known as papaya enzyme is helpful in digesting proteins. It is extracted from the tree and the fruit to make dietary supplements, and is also used as a major ingredient in some chewing gums. Skin Benefits Of Papaya: Papaya, which is rich in so many healthy components, is best for skin care as it promises and works to provide you with healthy and glowing skin. 1. Being a good source of Vitamin A and Papain, this fruit helps in removing dead skin cells along with breaking down the inactive proteins. 2. The best feature of papa

Vitamin B12

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Vitamin B12 Deficiency Are you getting enough vitamin B12? Many people don’t, and that deficiency can cause problems. Vitamin B12 does a lot of things for your body. It helps make your DNA and your red blood cells, for examples. You can get vitamin B12 from your  diet , or from  supplements . Exactly how much you need depends on your age. Below are the top 10 foods highest in vitamin B12 by common serving sizes, click  here for high vitamin B12 foods by nutrient density ,  here for an extended list of vitamin B12 rich foods , and  here for other foods high in vitamin B . For even more see the articles for  vegan  and  vegetarian sources of vitamin B12 . #1: Shellfish (Cooked Clams) Vitamin B12 in 100g 3oz Serving (85g) Per 20 small clams (190g) 98.9μg (1648% DV) 84.1μg (1401% DV) 187.9μg (3132% DV) Other Shellfish High in Vitamin B12 (%DV per 3oz serving cooked):  Oysters (408%), and Mussels (340%).  Click to see complete nutrition facts. #2: Liver