Health Benefits of Guava Juice
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3/21/2011 GUAVA JUICE REGIONAL STOKIST GUAVA JUICE – MAGNIFICENT TROPICAL FRUITS
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Magnificent Guava Juice Tropical FruitsDiarrhea & Dysentery: Guava is very rich in astringents (compounds those make your gums feel tighter and fresh after you chew guava leaves or eat a raw guava or use some toothpaste) which binds up loose bowels in diarrhea. These astringents are alkaline in nature and have disinfectant and anti-bacterial properties, thus help cure dysentery by inhibiting microbial growth and removing extra mucus from the intestines. Further, other nutrients in guava, such as vitamin-C, Carotenoids and potassium strengthens and tones up the digestive system and disinfect it. Guava is also beneficial in gastroenteritis due to reasons stated above. - Constipation: Guava is one of the riches sources of dietary fiber. Its seeds, if ingested whole or chewed, serve as excellent laxatives. These two properties of guava help forming bowels, retaining water and clean your intestines and excretory system thoroughly. It is said that single constipation can lead to seventy two types of ailments. It is absolutely true. Every way to your total health goes through proper digestion and more importantly, proper excretion. Guava ensures both of these. - Cough & Cold: Juice of raw and immature guavas or decoction of guava-leaves is very helpful in giving relief in cough and cold by loosening cough, reducing mucus, disinfecting the respiratory tract, throat and lungs and inhibiting microbial activity due to its astringent properties. Guava is one of richest in vitamin-C and iron which are proven to be preventive against cold and viral infections. In some areas in India, roasted ripe guava is used as a remedy against extreme cases of cough and cold and congestion. - Skin Care: Guavas can help improve your skin texture and avoid skin problems more than the best of beauty creams or skin toner gels can do. This is chiefly due to the abundance of astringents in its fruits (more in immature ones) and in leaves. You can benefit from it either by eating the fruits (this help tighten your muscles apart from your skin) or by washing your skin with the decoction of its immature fruits and leaves. It will tone up and tighten the loosened skin. In addition to the astringents, guava is very-very rich in vitamin-A, B, C and potassium which are very good anti oxidants and detoxifiers and keep your skin glowing and free from aging, wrinkles and other disorders. - High Blood Pressure: Guava helps reduce cholesterol in blood and prevents it from thickening, thereby maintaining fluidity of blood and reducing blood pressure. Studies have shown that food stuffs which lack fiber (such a refined flour) add to blood pressure, due to quick conversion to sugar. Guava, being very rich in fiber and hypoglycemic in nature, helps reduce blood pressure. - Weight Loss: Guava is very helpful for those who want to lose weight without compromising with their intake of proteins, vitamins and fiber. Guava, being very high in roughage and very rich in vitamins, proteins and minerals, but with no cholesterol and less digestible carbohydrates, is very filling and satisfies appetite very easily. Just have a medium sized guava in the lunch and you will not feel hungry till night. But ironically, it helps gaining weight in lean and thin people. This is probably due to its richness in nutrients, which keeps your metabolism right helping proper absorption of nutrients. - Scurvy: Guava can outdo many other fruits, including orange and other citrus fruits, when it comes to concentration of vitamin-C, whose deficiency causes scurvy and which is the only remedy to it. It contains five times the vitamin-C in oranges.Guava Contains :• Vitamin C the skin of guava contains more than 5 times Vit C than that of an orange. • Vitamin A and B • Calcium • Nicotinic Acid • Phosphorus • Potassium • Iron • Folic acid • FiberNutritive Values of Guava : Per 100 gm.• Vitamin A : 250 I.U. • Vitamin B : Thiamine .07 mg.; • Niacin : 1.2 mg. • Vitamin C : 302 mg. • C
Transcript of Health Benefits of Guava Juice
3/21/2011
GUAVAJUICEREGIONAL
STOKIST
GUAVA JUICE –MAGNIFICENT TROPICAL FRUITS
GuavaThe guava is native to the Caribbean. Its skin isthin, light yellow and blushed with pink. A ripeguava softens to the touch. Guavas emit a strong,sweet, pungent fragrance. The flesh is white, redor salmon-colored and flavor ranges fromstrawberry to lemon to tropical.
Guavas like other tropical fruits should not berefrigerated unless over ripe. The seeds of a guavacan be eaten and the taste is often described as across between pears and strawberries.
Health Benefits of Guava
- Diarrhea & Dysentery: Guava is very rich in astringents (compounds thosemake your gums feel tighter and fresh after you chew guava leaves or eat a rawguava or use some toothpaste) which binds up loose bowels in diarrhea. Theseastringents are alkaline in nature and have disinfectant and anti-bacterialproperties, thus help cure dysentery by inhibiting microbial growth and removingextra mucus from the intestines. Further, other nutrients in guava, such asvitamin-C, Carotenoids and potassium strengthens and tones up the digestivesystem and disinfect it. Guava is also beneficial in gastroenteritis due to reasonsstated above.
- Constipation: Guava is one of the riches sources of dietary fiber. Its seeds, ifingested whole or chewed, serve as excellent laxatives. These two properties ofguava help forming bowels, retaining water and clean your intestines andexcretory system thoroughly. It is said that single constipation can lead to seventytwo types of ailments. It is absolutely true. Every way to your total health goesthrough proper digestion and more importantly, proper excretion. Guavaensures both of these.
- Cough & Cold: Juice of raw and immature guavas or decoction of guava-leaves is very helpful in giving relief in cough and cold by loosening cough,reducing mucus, disinfecting the respiratory tract, throat and lungs and inhibitingmicrobial activity due to its astringent properties. Guava is one of richest invitamin-C and iron which are proven to be preventive against cold and viralinfections. In some areas in India, roasted ripe guava is used as a remedy against
extreme cases of cough and cold and congestion.
- Skin Care: Guavas can help improve your skin texture and avoid skinproblems more than the best of beauty creams or skin toner gels can do. This ischiefly due to the abundance of astringents in its fruits (more in immature ones)and in leaves. You can benefit from it either by eating the fruits (this help tightenyour muscles apart from your skin) or by washing your skin with the decoction ofits immature fruits and leaves. It will tone up and tighten the loosened skin. Inaddition to the astringents, guava is very-very rich in vitamin-A, B, C andpotassium which are very good anti oxidants and detoxifiers and keep your skinglowing and free from aging, wrinkles and other disorders.
- High Blood Pressure: Guava helps reduce cholesterol in blood and preventsit from thickening, thereby maintaining fluidity of blood and reducing bloodpressure. Studies have shown that food stuffs which lack fiber (such a refinedflour) add to blood pressure, due to quick conversion to sugar. Guava, beingvery rich in fiber and hypoglycemic in nature, helps reduce blood pressure.
- Weight Loss: Guava is very helpful for those who want to lose weight withoutcompromising with their intake of proteins, vitamins and fiber. Guava, beingvery high in roughage and very rich in vitamins, proteins and minerals, but withno cholesterol and less digestible carbohydrates, is very filling and satisfiesappetite very easily. Just have a medium sized guava in the lunch and you willnot feel hungry till night. But ironically, it helps gaining weight in lean and thinpeople. This is probably due to its richness in nutrients, which keeps yourmetabolism right helping proper absorption of nutrients.
- Scurvy: Guava can outdo many other fruits, including orange and other citrusfruits, when it comes to concentration of vitamin-C, whose deficiency causesscurvy and which is the only remedy to it. It contains five times the vitamin-C inoranges.
Guava Contains :
Vitamin C the skin of guava contains more than 5 times Vit C than that ofan orange.
Vitamin A and B Calcium Nicotinic Acid Phosphorus Potassium
Iron Folic acid Fiber
Nutritive Values of Guava : Per 100 gm.
Vitamin A : 250 I.U. Vitamin B : Thiamine .07 mg.; Niacin : 1.2 mg. Vitamin C : 302 mg. Calcium : 30 mg. Phosphorus : 29 mg. Carbohydrates : 17.1 gm. Protein : 1.0 gm. Calories : 70
Guava is Beneficial in the following cases :
1. Prolonged menstruation2. High blood pressure3. Poor circulation (strengthen the heart)4. Congestion of the lungs5. Acidosis6. Asthma7. Catarrh8. Obesity9. Scurvy10. Constipation treatment11. Prolonged menstruation12. High cholesterol level13. Beauty treatment: The juice has skin-smoothing, moisturizing
properties as it contains carotenoids—powerful antioxidants that aid inskin renewal and protect against environmental toxins. It is a valuablecomponent for anti-aging skin care as it contains moisture retaining Bvitamins which help prevent the oxidation process of the cell
14. Dengue fever: Guava juice helps with dengue fever to purify yourblood. It helps to keep the parasites out of your blood so that the bloodplatelets do not drop, with lower chance of getting malaria
15. Guava is an important source of vitamin C, which stimulates productionof collagen and is involved in the building and health of cartilage, joints,skin, and blood vessels. Vitamin C also aids in neutralizing pollutants and
has natural antihistamine properties which protect skin from skindiseases like hives, eczema, psoriasis, etc
The health benefits of guava include treatment of diarrhea, dysentery,constipation, cough, cold, skin care, high blood pressure, weight loss, scurvy, etc
Guava Juice BlendsOn a wide scale, the clarified guava juice is extremely desirable for making fruitblends with other fruit juices or extracts, and in the making of jelly or clarifiedguava nectar. Considered as an excellent beverage with an exotic aroma, it is avery tasty and nutritious drink. It can also be used in puddings, bakery fillings,fruit meals for children and to flavour delicious ice creams, yoghurt andconfectionery. Some of the popular guava juice recipes are:
Strawberry Guava Juice Go-Hard Guava
(Double Wildfern Satori,Red Curacao, DoubleGuava Nectar, Limejuice, Orange Juice)
Aloha Fruit Punch Barbados Fondue Berryessa Blast Brain Blender Cape Sunrise Cry Baby Blues Guadka Guava Colada Guava Gibbons Guttersnipe Happy Juice Island Girl
Jo JoSuperspy
Jungle Spice Lidalou Liquid
Cocaine #5 Magic Punch Maui Breeze Pajama
Jackhammer Pink Coral Pure Guava
Martini Randy Andy Red Rooster Rosemary St. Mark's
Market.
