Tips and Guides

Guayabano Nectar

1. Wash and peel guayabano. Remove core and seeds. Cut into small pieces. Mix two cups water for every three cups of pulp.
2. Pass guayabano pulp through a juice extractor or corn mill grinder. Add little by little so juice can be fully extracted. Strain through a stainless steel strainer.

3. Measure extracted pulp juice and add one cup of water for every two cups juice. Add one cup sugar for every 3″ cups of pulp mixture.
4. Pass sugared mixture through a juice mixer or beat with a rotary egg beater.
5. Place the mixture in an enamel casserole or a stainless steel kettle, and cook until it simmers. Do not let it boil. Lower the heatand stir from time to time until mixture become thick.
6. Pour cooked mixture into tall tin cans while still hot, leaving 1/4 inch space on top of the mixture.
7. Seal the cans and place them in a pressure cooker for 15 minutes at 10 pounds pressure.Cool and label

Guayabano Ade

Ingredients:

1 kilo ripe guayabano
4 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
Calamansi juice

Procedure:

1. Wash and peel fruits. Remove the core and seeds. Then cut pulp into small pieces.
2. Heat in four cups water. Cool. Strain mixture through a clean cheese cloth into a pitcher, then squeeze the juice.
3. Add sugar and enough clamansi juice or make the mixture a little sour. Serve with ice cubes. Add more sugar if desired.

MEDICINAL VALUE

The guayabano fruit is used as a cure for cough, scurvy and fever. It contains Vitamin A, calcium, phosphorous and rich with vitamin B and C. It also contains 11.62 percent sugar, mostly glucose and fructose.

The gree fruits and seeds can induce vomiting, remedy dysentery and arrest secreation or bleeding. The sap of the young leaves may be applied directly on pimples to induce suppuration. The sap is also considered parasiticidal. An alcoholic extract of the leaves, when distilled with steam, yields a small amount of essential oil. The portion of alcoholic extract which is soluble in water contains a large amount of potassium chloride together with dextrose tannis, amorphous products, and a small amount of an alkaloid substance which could not be crystallized. The leaves and roots also cure colic and convulsions.

Source: www.da.gov.ph, photo courtesy of www.globalpinoy.com and www.seasite.niu.edu