Ode to the Guava, the World's Healthiest Fruit
by Rachael Droege for SixWise.com
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SixWise.com Note: While you normally get articles
from us on the best approaches to achieve health, safety,
prosperity and enjoy your life, here's something a bit
different. Because guavas are one of the tastiest and
most nutritious foods on earth and therefore well deserving
of it -- and because you just don't see many guava poems
these days -- we asked poet Rachael Droege (after making
sure she enjoys guavas) to create an ode praising its
many virtues.
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If you don't enjoy this ode, try a guava anyway, they're
really good.
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Most exquisite: the demure guava hanging in the tropics goes
mostly unnoticed in America and
why should it, packing a punch five times more powerful than
an orange, it's flesh sweeter, like a strawberry pear and
brilliantly colored from a soft cream to bright blood red,
each cup loaded with antioxidants--only the blueberry has
more--
the
guava, yes, a superfood, full of vitamins C and A, lycopene,
potassium, fiber to fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease
and, would you believe it, build your immune system and brighten
your skin; lower your bad cholesterol and keep bad bacteria
at bay ...
Choose one that gives in to pressure, eat it raw and really
ripe or jammed, jellied, cooked and juiced,
all the varieties: Brazilian, Costa Rican, Hawaiian (kuawa-lemi,
kuawa-momona, kuawa-ke'oke'o),
Blitch, Patillo, Red Indian, Ruby, Supreme ... but still
we choose apples, bananas, pears, instead, the guava, you
know,
grows here too, California, Florida, Hawaii--if you've never
had one, get one today; show your friends (share it if you
like them) and be proud
for the guava is a king among fruits, sweet and sour, rich
yet light, eat it for breakfast, savor it for dessert,
even cook it green as a side dish, but, take heed: so adaptable
is the growing guava that planting it
in your own backyard is a gutsy move--the guava, so grand
in its nutritional qualities, is a pest to many
native Hawaiians, growing so wild it's considered nothing
more than a tasty weed.
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