Guava is plant of multipurpose medicinal applications. It is used as traditional medicine and number of ailments all around the world.  Tree producing guava is found in countries with hot climate such as Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. It is native to South America and Brazil. Psidium guajava is commonly known as guava. White guava and red guava are two most common types of guava. Seeds, skin, bark, pulp even all parts of this fruit have been used for different purposes. According to the research, guava has many effects on health. It was found that this fruit should be researched more extensively in clinical trials. Let’s discuss Guava flavoring today.

Guava Flavoring

Guava extract gives a unique tropical flavor. It is a great addition to both sweet and savory dishes. Add just a little bit of guava extract to cake, muffin. Doing this enhances the flavor of dish in which it is being added. According to Bickford Flavors, the guava fruit is having strong and musky odor. This guava extract has a juicy and subtle flavor. The strong musky odor and juicy flavor add a delightful taste to many recipes. Guava flavoring tastes just similar as you split open a guava and its juice is dripping down your chin. It feels cool, sweet and fresh. Next thing a person tasting this will be wearing is a smile. This guava flavor belongs to Bickford Flavors.

Concentrated guava flavoring is used in foods, beverages and products for human consumption. FDA approves it for this purpose. All of their flavorings are of full strength flavor concentrates. It is water soluble flavor having a beautiful tropical flavor. Sweet guava flavor concentrate is multipurpose. This flavor concentrate can be used for flavoring multiple recipes and dishes. It is naturally and artificially flavored.

Sweet guava flavor concentrate of Capella flavor is water soluble and highly concentrated. There are not any fats, calories, sweeteners or preservatives in it. Such nature of this product allows delivering a superior flavor concentrate. Its making is free from preservatives and stabilizers using finest ingredients.

Guava powder is also use for flavoring ice-creams, confections and juices of fruits. Jellies of guava flavor are made by boiling guava powder with sugar. Guava powder has a creamy white color with characteristics flavor. It is extracted from small guava tree. Dehydrated guavas are reduced to form a powder. This powder product of guava gives off a strong, sweet and musky odor.

Natural Guava Flavoring

Natural guava flavoring is a flavoring product having taste and aroma characteristics of guava fruit. Other natural flavors are also used. It is a colorless to pale yellow liquid. It provides the characteristics of guava to desired applications. This natural guava flavoring carries sweet and tart flavor.  It is said to be having a similar taste to passion fruit kiwi or strawberry.

As far as the quantity of flavoring to be used is concerned. It depends on the taste of person. As individual tastes are subjective and vary person to person. One should be using flavoring according to the nature of individual tastes preferences.

Guava Flavoring Syrup: Guava flavoring syrup is quick and easy way to add new flavors to variety of dishes. Adding a splash of guava flavoring syrup to beverages can please your guests. It has a sweet exotic taste with bright red color. Guava flavoring syrup enhances the flavor of drinks. Flavor of drinks is not overpowered yet enhanced. During the production, pure cane is used. No artificial flavors are added.  This makes it all natural flavor syrup with a balanced blend of flavor and aroma. This blend will instantly upgrade cocktails, smoothies, lemonades and fruit punches. Syrup flavoring is excellent addition of recipes in restaurant, bar and coffee shop.

Guava extract

Guava extract is an alternative to vanilla extract in your favorite recipes. Some extracts are specially formulated for baking. These are natural and artificial flavors with water and propylene glycol. It fits all of your flavor needs.

Guava extract is made from leaves that are from healthy branches of the tree. It is obtained from leaves of the Psidium guajava tree. In order to obtain the clean extract from guava leaves, healthy leaves are selected. Leaves of guava have phenolic compounds and flavonoids. They are high in antioxidant activity.

Some studies have reported guava extract to be used for dysentery and wounds. In addition to this, it has been famous for its antioxidants, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.

According to the book written by Rajiv Sharma, using guava extract of leaves can be helpful in treating mouth boils. For this purpose, take few leaves pf guava. Extract the juice of leaves. Add a little cachet powder. Apply this paste over moth boils and allow the saliva to ooze out. You will see that son the boils will start drying up. As an alternative, add a well ripe banana in sweet curd.  Then gradually apply this solution with help of a spoon. Using a couple of doses of this dish will clean the mouth boils in few days.

The book Living Food for Longer Life by Harald Tietze says that using three cups guava tee a day and guava flower essence can treat depression and fears. Guava leaf extract along with the leaves is supposed to be helpful in diabetes. For diarrhea, handful of guava fresh leaves is heated in water. This mixture is given a boil and then left for five minutes to settle. Guava tea powder also serves for this purpose. Guava extract of skin of this fruit is a good thirst quencher. It decreases additionally the blood sugar level and blood pressure.  For epilepsy, massages along the spine with guava tincture can be helpful. Guava tincture is also added to the bath water.

Pure Guava Extract

Guava diet, guava tea and guava tincture is added to the bath water for when having fever. It compresses at chest and lower legs with cold guava tea and vinegar. Guava skin extract, guava tea, and guava leaf infusion is good for abdominal compress. Stomach message is done with guava oil. Guava leaf tea is used in Brazil also as a medicine against gastroenteritis and child diarrhea. It acts as an alternative for those who cannot afford antibiotics. Extract of guava leaf sprout exhibited inhibitory effect on diarrhea. It also exhibited antimicrobial activity against pathogenic fish viruses and bacteria. Guava extract demonstrated anti-viral activity against infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus.

Guava extract is used for a mammal experiencing a feeling that includes at least one of nausea, headache, and dry mouth, lack of appetite, shakiness and fatigue. It could also be administered to mammal at the time when it feels these symptoms. In other words, this method is applied to prevent these feelings.

Guava extract for baking

Guava extract and flavoring can be used in wide range of baking applications. It includes cakes, cookies, smoothies, candies, frostings, muffins. It can also flavor chocolate, mousse, ice-creams and gelato.  Baked goods made with guava extract flavoring enhance the flavor of recipe making it more delicious.

Apart from this, the aroma of ripened guava fruit is used in lip balms, massage oils, body sprays, perfumes, and bath products.  These are made from the flavoring oil of particular fruit.