At the end of the fall season, unusual exotic fruits known to few people appear in stores. This is feijoa. Useful properties and contraindications of this product we learn from this article.
Description of the fruit and its composition
The birthplace of this exotic plant is South Africa. Today it can be found in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, and Crimea. Feijoa is a dark green oval fruit whose aroma resembles a mixture of strawberries, kiwi and pineapple. It is transported unripe, because when fully ripened, the product becomes fragile and soft. Before you begin to use this gift of nature, you need to know the composition of feijoa, useful properties and contraindications, because it can be harmful.
In this form of fruits contains a lot of iodine, which is easily absorbed by the human body. It also has essential oils, vitamin C, sucrose, fiber and pectin.
How to eat feijoa?
Many do not quite understand how to eat this exotic product. Everything is simple here: the fruit is cut into pieces, the pulp is eaten with a teaspoon. It is a great dessert or ingredient for an exotic dish. If the pulp is cut into slices, sprinkled with sugar, add sour cream and mix everything, you will get a very tasty treat. Just be careful, do not eat a lot: the combination of this fruit with dairy products can cause indigestion.
Feijoa. Benefit and harm
Due to the high iodine content, doctors recommend this product to those people who suffer from diseases of the thyroid gland, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract. Feijoa is useful to use during the period of activity of viral infections, because its essential oils reduce the risk of infection, and with regular use, the immune system naturally strengthens. This fruit also has a positive effect on digestion. It is also actively used in cosmetology for a positive effect on the skin.
The pulp of the product is a natural laxative, because it contains a large amount of pectin. Feijoa fruit is harmful to those who are prone to allergic reactions. Such people may have redness on the skin. It is undesirable to use it for people with diabetes or obesity. Cases of individual intolerance to this unusual fetus are noted.
The skin of feijoa. Useful properties and contraindications
You can not throw away the peel of this exotic gift of nature, because it contains useful elements (catechins and leukoanthocyanins) that preserve youth and prevent the appearance of cancer.
It is recommended to drink tea brewed from dried feijoa skin. The drink will be very useful. It prevents various poisonings. The pulp of the fruit is a laxative, but the peel is a fixative for the intestines.
Recipe: 1 tbsp. 200 ml of hot water are poured into a spoonful of crushed dried skins, insist a little. The drug should be taken half an hour before meals.
How to make the right choice?
Now you know a lot about feijoa: useful properties and contraindications, what dessert can be made, how to make tea. If you decide to buy this fruit in the store, it is important to make the right choice, because the content of useful elements in it depends on the quality of the product. It will be great if the seller allows you to cut the fruit in half. In ripe fruit, the flesh should be almost colorless. White color indicates that the product is still green, and brown - that it is not suitable for food. It is better to take unripe feijoa, because it will successfully mature at home in a couple of days.