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Pakistani Guava.

Guava, is popular across the country for its unique fragrance and taste. Guava belongs to family of Myrtacear. It is called “poor man’s fruit” or“ apple of tropics” and is a popular fruit tree of the tropical and subtropical climate and is native to tropical America stretching from Mexico to Peru. Guavas are cultivated throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia. Top guava producing countries are India, China, Thailand, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Philippines, and Nigeria. In Pakistan, it is grown in all the provinces.

The major guava growing areas include Shariqpur, Kasur, Lahore, Sheikhupora, Sangla Hills, Gujranwala in Punjab; Kohat, Haripur, and Bannu in KPK and Larkana, Naushehro Feroze and Hyderabad in Sindh. Guava fruits are used both, as fresh consumption and processing. The Dutch call it guyaba, goeajaaba, and the Portuguese, goiaba or goaiberi, in Spanish, the tree is guayabo, or guayavo, for Hawaiians it is guava or kuawa. In Malaya, it is generally known either as guava or jambu batu. In Pakistan, it is locally known as amrood.

Guava is partly deciduous, shallow-rooted shrubs or small tree that grows 4 to 5m in height but in exceptional cases, it may attain a height of 9 m, with spreading branches. Leaves are light green in color 7 to 15 cm in length.Guava can grow in both humid and dry tropical or subtropical regions of the world and it is cold sensitive. Guava cannot tolerate a high temperature of desert regions. Guavas cannot tolerate frost. Guava is cultivated on varied types of soil heavy clay to very light sandy soils.

The flower is white in color. The fruit has a thin peel, usually red, pale green or yellow when mature. The flesh of some varieties is hard (crunchy like an apple) other cultivars are white or pinkish in flesh color and soft when ripe with a strong, very characteristic fragrant scent. The fruit center core contains many small hard seeds.

Guava, a tropical fruit, originated in Central and South America, it is South Asia that has come to dominate the production of guava. Pakistan today stands as the sixth largest producer of guava. Pakistan produces around 560,000 tons guava annually with 58,500 hectares of land under its cultivation. Sindh is the second largest guava producer in the country with annual production at around 71,000 tons.

VARIETIES: Thadharami, local Sindhi, Riyali, Ramzani, Shamlo, Golo, Benazir and Hyderabadi

CALORIES: Being a low-energy dense fruit, guavas are low in calories. In other words, if you are taking a large serving size of guava, you will feel full and energised in very few calories. Here are the total calories in guava, depending upon their weight and serving size.

Utilizations; Guava is usually eaten new or made into drinks, jams, and different food varieties. Different pieces of the plant, including the leaf and the natural product, are utilized as medication.

BENEFITS:

Great for diabetics:

Aside from the insulin-like movement that guavas have, their rich fiber content and low glycaemic file makes them very gainful for diabetic patients. While fiber content guarantees the sugar levels are very much controlled, low glycemic record obliges an unexpected spike in sugar levels.

Safeguards the heart:

Guavas assist with bringing down the degrees of fatty substances and awful cholesterol, which add to improvement of coronary illness. They additionally further develop the levels the great cholesterol or HDL.

Further develops vision:

Despite the fact that, guavas are not as plentiful in that frame of mind as our darling carrots, they actually are an especially decent wellspring of the supplement. Vitamin A aides keep your eyes sound, and furthermore works on your vision. Night visual impairment is one of the infections related with a lack of vitamin A. Dry eyes of late? Load up on amrod and assist with alleviating that feared eye tingle while working on your visual perception.

They're cerebrum food:

Shock! Guava join the rundown of food varieties like fish and nuts since they currently qualify as cerebrum food. Cerebrum is one of the significant organs of our body, and it needs sustenance, very much like the entirety of our different organs. Guavas assist with feeding your cerebrum — packed with vitamin B3 and vitamin B6, guavas help in further developing blood dissemination to the mind and are demonstrated to loosen up your nerves.

Hostile to maturing specialists:

Did you had at least some idea this fam-most loved natural product has against maturing properties — particularly useful for your skin? Free extreme harm to the skin can set off wrinkle arrangement and early maturing. Guavas being plentiful in Vitamin C, Vitamin An and cancer prevention agents like lycopene, in this manner making you look more youthful and your skin showing up more flexible.

Safeguards against influenza blues:

The last thing we want in our lives, yet get a lot of in the winters, is the feared hack and cold. Guavas, not just have probably the most elevated amount of L-ascorbic acid among natural products, yet additionally iron. Iron is demonstrated to be preventive against cold and viral contaminations. The juice of crude guavas or a combination of guava-leaves is very useful in easing hack and cold since it disposes of bodily fluid and cleans the respiratory plot, throat and lungs.

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