Guava is guava, a tropical fruit, the fruit is spherical, pear-shaped or ovoid, about 3-8cm long, the flesh is white and yellow, the placenta is fat, fleshy and light red.

It has a very sweet and juicy flavor, smooth flesh, and a little seeded or seedless heart, and can be eaten raw directly as a fresh fruit, or cooked to make it into jam and jelly. It can also be widely used in the food processing industry and is rich in nutrition.

The guava is suitable for growth in the tropics, intolerant of frost, more growth in the wasteland, low hills, the temperature at 0 ℃ when the young trees have the possibility of freezing to death. It grows on the soil requirements are not strict, but in the well-drained sandy loam, clay loam soil growth is best.

Tips for buying guava

1, pick guava look at the surface

Pick guava usually this fruit can look at its surface, if the performance is too smooth and delicate, indicating that this guava is not yet mature, it is not appropriate to buy and eat, and after the ripening of the guava fiber coarse, in its surface will be relatively rough, the surface will look a little flat, with the hand when you feel the protrusion can be felt.

2, pick guavas to see scars

When choosing guavas, if you find yellowish traces on its surface, you'd better not buy it, because this kind of guava is bruised and then re-healed, and their taste is worse, eating some bitter, not sweet at all, and the nutritional value is not as good as that of the healthy guavas.

3, pick guavas look at the color

When picking guavas usually can look at its color, must not choose that half yellow half green guavas, because such guavas in the growth of sunlight irradiation is not uniform, they have stunted, such guavas taste worse, some guavas half-sweet, half-astringent, not tasty at all, usually picking guavas is best to choose the green fruit with the same color of appearance. The appearance of the color of the same green fruit, and feel slightly soft, this guava taste the best, but also fully ripe fruit.