The guava is still to
me quite a foreign and intriguing fruit. The pink-fleshed jewel is supposedly
the next “super-fruit” after packing quite the health-kick and as we all know
this beauty has a delicious flavor. Here we’re going to look at 15 facts about
this strange little fruit.
1.
Guava is used, in some
form or another, to treat an array of ailments including fever, constipation
and diarrhea, high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia and dysentery.
2.
Guava wood is prized
in the world of meat smoking.
3.
Guavas contain 4 times
more fiber than a pineapple and 4 times
more vitamin C than an orange.
4.
Guavas are known for
their seedy flesh. In the center of a guava there are between 100-500 edible
seeds.
5.
Guavas grow on 20 foot
high evergreen shrubs, with white flowers. The leaves of the shrub are a source
of black pigment used in textiles.
6.
The lifespan of a
plant is 40 years.
7.
The young guava leaves
are boiled to make a tea to cleanse wounds.
8.
The origin of the
guava is unknown, but unofficially the claim is made by Central America or
Southern Mexico.
9.
There are around 150
varieties of guava not just the green oval shaped fruit we all picture.
10.
In El Salvador, the
wood of a guava shrub is used to make hair combs.
11.
India has over 27,000
tons of the pink guava every year.
12.
Columbia has an
ancient recipe using guava, the fruit is made into a paste and combined with
cheese and eaten with Columbian bread. The concoction sounds awful but it
supposedly scrumptious.
13.
Guavas do a take a
while to grow so don’t think in a year they’ll be flourishing! An average guava
can take between 2 and 8 years to grow fully.
14.
At one point in
Philippine mythology the guava was forbidden. This changed when a child prayed
to the gods to make the inedible fruit delicious so he could feed a beggar.
15.
The largest guava
plantation is in Brazil’s Dom Eliseu municipality.
As you can see there
are numerous facts about this beautiful little fruit, and the more you dig into
the history and uses around the world the more wonders you reveal. One things
for sure, whatever the case, the guava is going to be even more popular as time
goes on and I’m sure as a result of this the price will soon enough sky rocket
so be quick.
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