Calories in papaya: 27 kcal per 100 g

Q: How many calories are in a portion of papaya?

A typical portion (80 g, one of your five a day) gives 22 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 27 kcal.

Q: Is papaya high in vitamin C?

Yes. Papaya, unripe, green flesh, raw has 31 mg vitamin C per 100 g, 39 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

Q: Which vitamins and minerals does papaya have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin C (31 mg, 39 %), magnesium (56 mg, 15 %) and potassium (210 mg, 11 %) per 100 g.

Q: Is papaya a good source of protein?

Papaya, unripe, green flesh, raw has 0.9 g protein per 100 g, 13 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “source of protein”.

What’s in an 80 g portion

More than half of a portion is water, which is why the calories stay low. What is left is mostly carbohydrate.

0.08 gFat

0.72 gProtein

4.4 gCarbohydrate

1.2 gFibre

73.7 gWater

0.08 gFat
0.72 gProtein
4.4 gCarbohydrate
1.2 gFibre
73.7 gWater

Below average for vegetables

Papaya is 27 kcal per 100 g. The 240 vegetables in this database average 59.9.

Papaya27

Vegetables average59.9

Low in fat

0.1 g of fat per 100 g; the UK “low fat” line is 3 g.

Fat, per portion0.08 g

Vitamins and minerals in papaya

One of the 15 reach the “high in” level: vitamin C.

31 %

Vitamin C

24.8 mg in an 80 g portion

51st of 216 vegetables

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Magnesium44.8 mg12 %

Potassium168 mg8.4 %

Copper0.08 mg8 %

Manganese0.08 mg4 %

Phosphorus24 mg3.4 %

None recorded

Vitamin D
Vitamin B12

Show all 15 with amounts

Vitamin C24.8 mg, 31 %

Magnesium44.8 mg, 12 %

Potassium168 mg, 8.4 %

Copper0.08 mg, 8 %

Manganese0.08 mg, 4 %

Phosphorus24 mg, 3.4 %

Iron0.48 mg, 3.4 %

Calcium26.4 mg, 3.3 %

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5)0.18 mg, 2.9 %

Zinc0.16 mg, 1.6 %

Riboflavin (vitamin B2)0.02 mg, 1.1 %

Thiamin (vitamin B1)0.01 mg, 0.7 %

Vitamin A0.0008 mg, <1 %

Vitamin Dnone recorded

Vitamin B12none recorded

Badges use the UK legal thresholds per 100 g: 15 % of the reference intake for “source of”, 30 % for “high in”.

What papaya doesn’t give you. And where to find it.

No recorded vitamin D or vitamin B12, and only 2 % of the zinc reference intake per 100 g.

Vitamin D

0mgin papaya

Find it inBloater, grilled500 % per 100 g

Zinc

2%in papaya, per 100 g

Find it inOysters, raw592 % per 100 g

Vitamin B12

0mgin papaya

Find it inLiver, ox, raw4400 % per 100 g

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Papaya against other vegetables

Per 100 g, papaya has the most vitamin C of the 6 here, ahead of cabbage (white, boiled).

31mg

18mg

15mg

12mg

10mg

8mg

Papaya, unripe, green flesh, rawthis page

Cabbage, white, boiled−13 mg

Plantain, green flesh, raw−16 mg

Peas, frozen, boiled−19 mg

Asparagus, grilled−21 mg

Matoki, boiled−23 mg

All values per 100 g, from the same dataset. Differences are against papaya.

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Questions about papaya

The questions people ask about papaya, answered from the dataset.

How many calories are in a portion of papaya?

A typical portion (80 g, one of your five a day) gives 22 kcal. Per 100 g the figure is 27 kcal.

Is papaya high in vitamin C?

Yes. Papaya, unripe, green flesh, raw has 31 mg vitamin C per 100 g, 39 % of the NRV, above the 30 % threshold for a “high in” claim.

Which vitamins and minerals does papaya have most of?

By share of the daily reference intake: vitamin C (31 mg, 39 %), magnesium (56 mg, 15 %) and potassium (210 mg, 11 %) per 100 g.

Is papaya a good source of protein?

Papaya, unripe, green flesh, raw has 0.9 g protein per 100 g, 13 % of the energy, which meets the UK threshold for “source of protein”.

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from the UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID), 2021 edition, record 13-311, Papaya, unripe, green flesh, raw, published by Public Health England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Main data references: Gopalan et al. (1980) Nutritive value of Indian foods, National Insitute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, and Wu Leung et al. (1972) Food composition table for use in East Asia. Values are per 100 g of the edible part; a portion is 80 g, one of your five a day, the usual UK portion for vegetables. Edible proportion: 68 % of the weight as bought is eaten. Reference intakes follow Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 Annex XIII as retained in GB law; “source of”, “high in” and “low” follow Regulation (EC) 1924/2006, assessed per 100 g. Function lines are the authorised wording from the GB register of nutrition and health claims, credited to the nutrient. Energy is rounded to the whole kcal and kJ; other amounts to one decimal, or two below 1. A trace is shown as “trace” and never gets a figure or a badge; a nutrient never analysed is left off the page. We start from the dataset’s 2,887 records and keep 2,322: records weighed with bone, shell or skin, alcoholic drinks, infant foods, brand-named products, records with fewer than eight measured vitamins and minerals and near-identical variants are left out. Group context uses the 240 vegetables kept from the dataset; a rank counts only the foods with a measured figure for that nutrient. Food images are illustrations from Ingredient Atlas, released under CC0; they show the food, not the measured sample, and where no illustration of the exact food exists the nearest one is shown (here: Papaya). Checked 5 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.