Benefits of Guava Fruit

Guava is a large berry which is round or oval in shape with light green or light yellow coat. The color of its flesh varies from white or pink to dark green and seeds can be edible. 

Guava can be classified as the super fruit, because of its numerous health promoting qualities. This healthy fruit is well known for their medicinal property that contains natural sugars, vitamins and minerals in it. Guava is extremely rich in vitamin C, Carotene and Antioxidants which beneficial for skin health. Guava juice can also be used as a refreshing drink.

There are various types of Guava, a healthy food which differ in scent, taste and appearance. Generally guava has a strong, sweet and pungent smell and its flavor ranges from strawberry or lemon to tropical.
This Fruit widely available in India throughout the year and local name for Guava is “Peru”. In fact, having low in cost with numerous benefits of Guava made it popular and are quite affordable to everyone. In India, it is available at just on roadside selling by small vendors everywhere.

Why it’s Healthy food: Guava is rich in lycopene, an antioxidant that fights prostate cancer, protects the skin from being damaged by UV rays, environmental pollution as well than any other plant food, including tomatoes and watermelon.

A normal Guava provides about 2.9 grams of lycopene. Pink guavas contain twice the amount of lycopene than that of Tomato’s. One cup of Guava provides 688 milligrams (mg) of potassium, which is 63 percent more than that of a medium Banana. Potassium reverses the effects of sodium, thereby regulates the blood pressure. Also, it reduces cholesterol levels in the blood by preventing it from become thickening.

Guava is also the Fiber rich food containing almost 9 gm of fiber in every cup and helpful for persons with diabetes by slowing down the absorption of sugar in the blood.Guava Fruit

Studies have shown that a Fibre rich diet (5.4 gm per 100 gm of fruit) is associated to a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Those suffering from constipation problems, can have the benefits from high fibre content.

Winter is the season of having some delicious guavas. Everyone loves to eat this fruit and numerous varieties are available.

Antiageing Properties: 

Guava is rich source in Vitamins A, B, C and potassium which works as good detoxifiers. They fight free radicals, keeping the skin glowing and prevent premature signs of Ageing like wrinkles and fine lines.

Benefits of Guava Fruit

Besides, lycopene in Guava protects the cells being toxinated that accumulate in the body due to metabolism and environmental pollution. These toxins also cause pre mature ageing by damaging the DNA in the process of growth and development of body.

Even guavas are not having iodine; they are still helpful in promoting healthy thyroid function, because it contains copper, which aids the production and absorption of hormones.

Guavas are a good source of manganese, the enzyme which activates nutrients utilization like thiamine, biotin and ascorbic acid.

For optimization of brain functioning, Guavas are rich in the B group of vitamins. Niacin, better known as Vitamin B3, promotes blood circulation, thereby stimulating brain function. Vitamin  B6 that is pyridoxine, helps in brain and nerve function.

The folate in Guavas contains fertility-promoting properties thus eating this fruit, women facing fertility problems can benefit.

Guavas contain an abundance of Vitamin A that helps in Eye care and improve vision with keeping away the Eye diseases

10 Things To Remember on new debit card PIN rule

  Payment through cards has become increasingly popular in India. To maintain security and keep up with the changing times, the Reserve Bank of India has mandated debit card holders to punch in their PIN numbers during every transaction from December 1.

Here are some things you need to know about debit card usage:

1) The RBI rule was first enforced in June 2013 to act as an additional layer of security in transactions. However, banks had requested for some time to update the back-end infrastructure. The RBI had then extended the deadline to November 30.

2) As part of the rule, customers will now to have punch in the PIN number after the card has been swiped or inserted in the small point-of-sales (PoS) terminal. This is the small machine that shops and merchants use for the payment. Once the PIN has been entered, you will get the transaction charge slip, which has to be signed.

3) If the PoS terminal is not updated to ask for PIN, and the transaction proceeds without it, then the bank will decline the transaction.

4) The PIN being used here is the same that a customer uses at an ATM or Automated Teller Machine to withdraw money. Do not get confused with the ‘transaction password’ used for online banking.

5) You will get only three chances at punching the right PIN number. After that, your transaction will automatically be cancelled. If you manage to remember your PIN number after three attempts, you can still use your debit card. However, the transaction will have to be started all over again from scratch.

6) If you have forgotten your PIN number, call your bank to order for a duplicate PIN number. You will, however, have to verify your personal details like address, email id, date of birth, etc., for security purposes. This will be posted to your address within 7-10 working days.

7) This rule is mainly for debit cards being used for physical transactions only. There is no change in the way internet transactions are undertaken. The rules for credit cards too remain unchanged.

8) This is part of the measures undertaken to deal with frauds and security breaches. Other measures include addition of an Europay, MasterCard or Visa chip on the card, establishment of real-time fraud monitoring system, limit on transactions, immediate notifications, etc.

9) There are over 36 crore debit cards being used in India to conduct as many as 5.54 crore merchandise transactions per month amounting to Rs 8,017.86 crore. There are as many as 52 crore transactions being conducted using ATMs in a month, as per the latest RBI data.

10) In contrast, there are 1.8 million credit cards in use. The total number of transactions being conducted at PoS counters too is less at 4.14 crore. However, the total value of transactions is higher than that for debit cards at Rs 10,748 crore.

Source: Simplus Information Services | Yahoo Finance India

Amazing Facts About the Human Body!

How long does a human hair live for? What's the strongest muscle in the body? These questions and many other bizarre quandaries will be answered in this extra fascinating list of  amazing facts about our body.

1. The brain is more active at night than during the day. Scientists don't know yet why this is.

2. The higher your IQ, the more you supposedly dream.

3. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.

4. The nail on the middle finger grows faster than the other fingernails.

5. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toe nails.

6. The lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.

7. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve zinc. It doesn't destroy the stomach because because the stomach walls constantly renews itself.

8. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.


9. Women blink twice as many times as men do.

10. Women are born better smellers than men and remain better smellers over life.

11. Men burn fat faster than women by a rate of about 50 calories a day.

12. Men get hiccups more often than women.

13. A man has approximately 6.8 litres of blood in the body while women have approximately 5 litres.

14. The largest cell in the body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

15. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

16. Babies are always born with blue eyes. The melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby's true eye color.

17. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

18. If your saliva cannot dissolve or mix with food, you will not be able to taste that food (try tasting something after drying off your tongue)

19. Noise causes the pupils of your eyes to dilate. Even very small noises can do this.

20. Everyone has a unique smell, unique finger print and unique tongue print.

21. By age 60, most people will have lost half their taste buds.

22. Your eyes remain the same size after birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

23. A simple, moderately severe sunburn burns the blood vessels extensively.

24. We are about 1cm taller in the mornings than in the evenings.

25. The strongest muscle in the body is the human tongue.

26. The hardest bone in the human body is the jaw bone.

27. The hands and feet contains almost half of the total bones in the human body.

28. About 32 million bacteria call every inch of your skin home, but they are mostly harmless and some of them are even helpful.

20. Humans shed and regrow outer skin every 27 days.

30. Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute and everyday and adult produces 300 billion new cells.

31. The colder the room you sleep, the higher the chances are that you would get a nightmare.

32. Humans are the only species that produce emotional tears.


33. All babies are color blind at birth, they see only black and white.

34. The only part of your body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It gets its oxygen directly from air.

35. A normal human being can survive 20 days without eating but can survive only 2 days without drinking.

36. It is impossible to kill yourself by choking yourself with your hands.

37. Everybody has one strong eye and one weak eye.

38. Your skeleton keeps renewing itself every ten years which means that every ten years you get a new skeleton.

39.. The human feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.

40. There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow.That's like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.