15 Fruity Facts About Guavas

The guava is still to me quite a foreign and intriguing fruit. The pink-fleshed jewel is supposedly the next “super-fruit” after packing quite the health-kick and as we all know this beauty has a delicious flavor. Here we’re going to look at 15 facts about this strange little fruit.

1. Guava is used, in some form or another, to treat an array of ailments including fever, constipation and diarrhea, high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia and dysentery.
2. Guava wood is prized in the world of meat smoking.
3. Guavas contain 4 times more fiber than a pineapple and 4 times more vitamin C than an orange.
4. Guavas are known for their seedy flesh. In the center of a guava there are between 100-500 edible seeds.
5. Guavas grow on 20 foot high evergreen shrubs, with white flowers. The leaves of the shrub are a source of black pigment used in textiles.
6. The lifespan of a plant is 40 years.
7. The young guava leaves are boiled to make a tea to cleanse wounds.
8. The origin of the guava is unknown, but unofficially the claim is made by Central America or Southern Mexico.
9. There are around 150 varieties of guava not just the green oval shaped fruit we all picture.
10. In El Salvador, the wood of a guava shrub is used to make hair combs.
11. India has over 27,000 tons of the pink guava every year.
12. Columbia has an ancient recipe using guava, the fruit is made into a paste and combined with cheese and eaten with Columbian bread. The concoction sounds awful but it supposedly scrumptious.
13. Guavas do a take a while to grow so don’t think in a year they’ll be flourishing! An average guava can take between 2 and 8 years to grow fully.
14. At one point in Philippine mythology the guava was forbidden. This changed when a child prayed to the gods to make the inedible fruit delicious so he could feed a beggar.
15. The largest guava plantation is in Brazil’s Dom Eliseu municipality.

As you can see there are numerous facts about this beautiful little fruit, and the more you dig into the history and uses around the world the more wonders you reveal. One things for sure, whatever the case, the guava is going to be even more popular as time goes on and I’m sure as a result of this the price will soon enough sky rocket so be quick.

THE FACT OF FUN

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

Learn fun and easy facts about burning calories; an average sized human will burn about 2400 Calories per day without doing any exercise. The results are based on an average 150 pound human.

1. Singing in the shower can burn an extra 10-20 Calories per song, depending on the volume and pitch of your voice.
2. Laughing for 10 minutes can make you burn between 20 and 40 Calories.
3. You burn about 200 Calories during 30 minutes of active sex.
4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 Calories an hour.
5. On average, brushing your teeth for three minutes will burn 10 Calories.
6. Pushing a shopping trolley up the aisles for half an hour will burn over 100 Calories, this number increases with the amount you put in your trolley and the heavier it gets.
7. One hour spent sitting in front of the TV burns around 65 Calories.
8. Smoking a cigarette burns roughly 10 Calories.
9. Dancing on a Dance Mat for 10 minutes will burn 50-60 Calories.
10. Hugging for one hour can burn 70 Calories.
11. If you whip your head back and forth to Willow Smiths song, you will burn up to 50 Calories, depending on how crazy you go.
12. A one minute kiss can burn between 2 and 4 Calories, depending on how intimate it is.
13. A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
14. You burn more calories than you consume when you eat celery.
15. On average, if you walk your dog for 30 minutes, you burn 100 Calories.
16. You burn more calories sitting in the cold, than heat.
17. Chewing gum burns 11 Calories per hour.
18. You can burn up to 350 more Calories per day if you fidget, rather than someone who remains stationary.
19. Missing a night of sleep causes the body to burn about an extra 161 calories.
20. Constant texting can burn 40 Calories per hour.