Guava Health Benefits

The fruit with a heart of gold

Guava is such a common fruit that when you approach a fruit vendor and make a selection, you may take its health benefits for granted. However, there is more than meets the eye to this fruit and knowing its lasting effects on your body will make you sit up and pay the fruits its due respect.

Helps weight loss

Yes, the guava can be your personal trainer when it comes to the top wish in every woman's wishlist. How the guava helps is by providing lot of fibre or roughage, besides proteins, vitamins and minerals, normally lost in weight loss programmes. Besides being rich in dietary fibre, it is rich in vitamin A and C, folic acid, potassium, manganese and anitoxidants. Guava also has far less sugar as compared to fruits like apples, oranges and grapes. Eating a guava before or after lunch keeps you feeling full till dinner, thereby helping you avoid snacking. Metabolism has a lot to do with weight loss, and the guava helps the metabolic activity by aiding proper absorption of nutrients.

Stops the loosies

For mothers of young babies, loose motions or diarrhoea is a big monster, no less than those from Monsters Inc. Guava being rich in astringents, or compounds that make your gums feel tighter, also helps tighten up loose bowels. Further, Vitamin C, carotenoids and potassium present in guava strengthen and tone up the digestive system and also help disinfect it. Great news, is it not?