Guava Fruit Benefits

Natural (Guava) Fruit)

Guava (Psidium guajava linn) comes from Central America. This plant can grow well in lowlands and highlands. Generally planted in the yard and in the fields. Guava tree is a branching plant many shrubs, the height can reach 12 m. The amount of fruit varied from 2.5 cm in diameter up to more than 10 cm.

Cashew is favored by the people generally are soft and thick, fleshy, sweet, a little seedy and large-sized fruit. Several types of guava which featured, among others, guava Sunday Market, Bangkok Cashew, cashew Palembang, cashew breadfruit, cashew apple, guava juice, guava and guava brittle.

Among the various types of fruit, guava contains the highest vitamin C and contain enough vitamin A. Compared to other fruits like sweet oranges which have vitamin C content of 49 mg/100 grams of material, vitamin C content of guava 2-fold. Vitamin C is very good as antioxidants. Most of the vitamin C guava concentrated on the outside skin and flesh is soft and thick.

Vitamin C content of guava peaked near mature. In addition to a reliable supplier of vitamin C, guava is also rich in fiber, especially pectin (soluble fiber), which can be used to gel or jelly-making material. Benefits of other pectin for lowering cholesterol is the binding of cholesterol and bile acids in the body and helps expenditures. Research by Singh Medical Hospital and Research Center Morrabad, India showed guava can lower total cholesterol and blood triglycerides and blood pressure in essential hypertensive patients.

Natural (Guava) Fruit)

Nutrition Tables in 100 grams of guava
Ingredients Amount Ingredients Amount

Energy

Vitamin A

Protein

Vitamin B1

Fat

Vitamin B2

Carbohydrate


49.00 ka

25 SI

0.90 gr

0.05 mg

0.30 gr

0.04 mg

12.20 gr


Vitamin C

Calcium

Niacin

Phosphorus

Fiber

Iron

Water


87.00 mg

14.00 mg

1.10 mg

28.00 mg

5.60 gr

1.10 mg

86 grams

Edible part and 82%

Guava also contains tannins, which cause a sense of Sepat on fruit but also serve to facilitate the digestive system, blood circulation, and is useful for attacking viruses.


Reduce the risk of heart disease up to 16%

Guava also contains potassium which works to increase the regularity of heart rate, activating muscle contractions, regulating delivery of other nutrients to the cells of the body, control fluid balance in the body's tissues and cells. Research by Singh Medical Hospital & Research Centre Morabad, India showed that guava can lower total cholesterol and blood triglycerides and blood pressure of hypertensive patients. Because of this high content of lycopene, in Indonesia, guava fruit juice is often used to increase platelet levels of patients with dengue fever disease. According to Drs. James Cerda by eating the guavas from 0.5 to 1 kg / day for 4 weeks the risk of heart disease can be reduced by 16%.

In guava lycopene is also found in non-nutrient substances other than fiber potential. Lycopene is karatenoid (important pigment in plants) found in the blood (0.5 moles per liter of blood) and have anti-oxidant activity. Lycopene epidemiologic research studies conducted by researchers in Italy, including 2706 cases of oral cavity cancer, tekek, esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum, increasing consumption of lycopene, especially on the guava fruit flesh is red, seedy and taste sweet have any effect on the body provides protection from some types of cancer.

Besides the benefits of guava to maintain a healthy heart and blood vessels and prevent the emergence of cancer, strengthen the body resistance against diseases, improve the health of gums, teeth and capillaries and helps iron absorption and wound healing. Guava also efficacious anti-inflammatory, anti-diarrhea and stop bleeding, for example in patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).


Red Guava Can not Heal DBD

Guava is believed to increase levels of blood platelets, which fell as dengue fever. But actually medically guava does not necessarily cure dengue fever. "Red Cashew only to increase the power of the body," said Dian Afianti, doctors at Roemani Hospital, Semarang, Central Java.

So if you suffer from dengue fever should still needed medical treatment. More importantly, dengue fever should be prevented by keeping the environment clean and eradicate mosquito breeding and its larva.