What do yall think about paw paw fruit toxicity?

[sneakz]

So lately I have been constantly debating about whether I should get paw paw trees or not. I really want to taste and get one but I have read some articles that it contains neurotoxins that kill your neurons. Does anyone know more about this topic and if they are actually harmful or not?

[Ognin525]

If your worried you can send me your fruit and I'll eat em haha. Some of the old timers at the pawpaw festivals have been eating hundreds of pawpaws a season for decades with no effect. Dont eat the skin or the seeds where it's most concentrated if u worry , not like these parts even taste edible anyways. I have never noticed anything while or after eating them myself either. Pull the trigger and grow it!

[Pau]

Pawpaws grow slow. Grow one now and decide later 😁

[BloomAndSprout]

You'd have to eat a lot of pawpaw and/or its annonacae relatives which is unlikely especially since they're not available year-round. The bigger risk is the annonacin in the tea people make from the leaves.  Same chemical compound, but higher concentration there.  I wouldn't worry.

[Mabus]

I got pawpaw seeds because of their anti cancer propertys.

But if you worry about neurotoxins, i recomend any Hericium species or  Lignosus rhinocerus. They promote nervecell growth (i recomend a hour before you learn something new, that way you learn it faster and beter).

My ducks found somewhere neurotoxins. Lost many last year because of that. They always died a slow agonicing death, where they get slowly paralized. Until i gave them hericium. They where cured in a single day.

Still haven't found the source of the neurotoxin (free range) - but i just give them hericium preemtively.