I don't think I'd ever eaten a guava before a woman brought a bag of guavas from her tree to our Tuesday night bridge game. I took a few of the fragrant fruits, and then had to decide how to eat or use them. It's a pink-fleshed fruit, maybe the next super fruit. The problem, as I soon found out when I cut into one, is what to do with the seeds inside. They're not chewable, they're small, yet hard, so I had to keep spitting them out. My friend Kannon said to blend the fruit in a Ninja (seeds will be chopped up), then use the pureed guava pulp to make margeritas. That worked out just fine, after adding a bit of sugar, they were delicious.
Here are a few facts you might not know about the tropical fruit, guava.
1..They contain four times as much vitamin C as an orange.
2. Guava is used, in some form or other, to treat fever, constipation and diarrhea, high blood pressure, and dysentery.
3. An average guava takes 2-8 years to grow to maturity.
4. There are about 150 varieties of guava.
5. Young guava leaves are boiled to make a tea to cleanse wounds.
6. The lifespan of a guava tree is about 40 years.
7. There are between 100-500 edible seeds.
8. The origin of the guava is unofficially Central America or Southern Mexico.
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