Papaya (Carica papaya) is a common tropical fruit used for nutrition as well as medicinal purposes. Apart from fruit, seed, latex and other plant parts of papaya tree have been shown to have medicinal properties. Since, no systematic study has been performed on nutritional analysis of different parts of Carica papaya especially of central Indian region; the present study is an attempt to compare the nutritional values of different plant parts. Root, stem, leaf, fruit and seeds of C. papaya were subjected to proximate analysis and their nutritional potential was compared. Though the fruit showed maximum nutritional value as expected, the leaf and seed showed good amount of carbohydrates while stem showed good amount of protein. The nutritionally important minerals were found to be in good amount in all the plant parts. Finally, all the plant parts were found devoid any toxic heavy metal.
