The feijoa draws attention of many people not only the name, but also the appearance and also excellent taste and a set of useful properties. Than it is useful to a feijoa actually?
Annually on counters of shops the greenish fruits similar to a gooseberry appear. It is also a feijoa. It is berry which is picked from small trees in South America. This region is considered the homeland of a plant.
The feijoa has a set of useful properties. They are caused by existence in structure of berry of a large amount of vitamins and minerals.
Advantage of a feijoa for a human body
- Compensates for the iodine deficiency of an organism that promotes improvement of work of a thyroid gland and brain.
- Improves memory and attentiveness.
- Raises an organism tone.
- Thanks to vitamin C, helps to cope with catarrhal and viral diseases.
- Increases immunity of the person.
- The feijoa is often included in various diets as it adjusts a metabolism and promotes fast saturation of an organism, thanks to high content of cellulose.
- Effectively reduces arterial blood pressure.
- Fights against the increased cholesterol level.
- Improves digestion that helps at treatment of gastritis and other gastrointestinal diseases.
- From a feijoa prepare various ointments which are used in dermatology at treatment of fungal diseases.
- From it prepare various masks for face skin which remove hypostases and have the rejuvenating and nutritious effect.
- Thanks to existence in its composition of pectin, is natural depletive.
- The peel of a feijoa is used at treatment of poisonings of varying severity. But for this purpose it is made.
- Brings toxins and other toxic agents out of an organism.
- Is prophylactic of oncological diseases.
- Perfectly cleans blood vessels in a human body.
- Increases hemoglobin level in blood.
- Struggles with a hair loss at the person.
- Perfectly removes various inflammations in a human body, including inflammations of kidneys.
- Has antimicrobial property that helps at cuts and other cutting wounds.
Harm of a feijoa
Despite huge amount of useful properties, the feijoa has also some contraindications. People can't eat fruit with violations of work of heart and also sick diabetes. At the use of a feijoa various allergic reactions can appear. It is also best of all to refrain from consumption of this berry to people with digestion violations. Because it can aggravate a problem.
At the same time even in the absence of any contraindications the use of a feijoa shouldn't exceed more than 400 g a day for the adult and 150 g for the child.
As it is correct to eat a feijoa
As berry grows only in the southern hemisphere, it is picked nedospely and carried over other countries. Therefore it gets on the shelves of shops most often in such look. And the nedospely feijoa is stored very short time and to spoil quickly. Because of it it is necessary to watch closely when choosing berry quality of a product.
At the same time there is a feijoa better entirely, without cleaning a peel. It contains a large amount of useful vitamins and minerals.