Here it comes, the most unfamiliar fruit for your healthy daily consumption. Guinep, or you might call it with Spanish lime to see what kind of fruit guinep is. Lime, but actually it is quiet strange for Indonesian people to see it as a lime. Well, on the outside, guinep is mostly looks like another lime. But, to see the soft orange inside, you might think it is a citrus.
Guinep localize from Jamaica, but also known as different names in tropical countries, like Florida, Mexico, Africa, South America, and else. Guinep can be eaten right away. It has sour and sweet taste. If you one of lime lover,you might want to taste guinep once in your life time. On the other hand, guinep can be made as a sauces, dessert or even juice. Others name for guiner or Spanish lime is genip, quenepa, chenet, canepa and many more.
12 Proven Health Benefits of Eating Guinep Fruit
It said, that guinep has mixing taste between lychee and limes. Indonesian people might not be familiar about this fruit. Because it never seen in our country. But, actually, like another type of lime, guinep has abundant benefits for our body.
In the other word, we can say that guinep is actually healthy if you know how to consume it. And this time, we are going to talk about the health benefits of the guinep fruit, including its nutrition facts, cautions and recommendation in eating guinep.
Nutrition from eating Guinep
People commonly know that lime formed mostly by vitamin C. Is it true? However, don’t you know that this kind of lime also contains the other beneficial substances for health? In every 100 grams of guinep contains:
- 520 of calorie
- 13 grams of fat
- 1000 mg of sodium
- 24 grams of protein
- 14 grams of carbohydrate
- 13.5 grams of carbs
- 10.38% of iron
- 10% of Vitamin B1
- 8.08% of Vitamin B2
- 6% of Vitamin C
And the other substances which is very light in amount such as phosphorus, tryptophan, niacin and dietary fiber.
Based on the fact that guinep has a lot of beneficial substances in it, we should believe that it has many benefits for health. These are the health benefits of Guinep Fruit:
1. Lowers Blood Pressure
Vitamin C as antioxidant plays significant rule as an agent of free radical prevention, healthy blood vessel make your heart put less effort in pumping the blood. And it can only be obtained from eating healthy food with less sugar contained in guinep and high vitamin C. Here is the Symptoms of Low Blood Pressure
2. Prevent Anemia
Looking at the iron percentage in guinep above we know that, mostly, guinep contains much iron in it. Iron is the best agent for your anemia problems. Its enrich your hemoglobin with high iron and other beneficial food for your body.
3. Protecting Your Immune System
It is because the phosphorus contained in guinep that would be your protection from free radical. Besides, there are also high contains of Vitamin C which is the best antioxidant agent. Mostly, diseases coming from your unhealthy environment. It is attacking your immune system and distributed viruses.
4. Anti Diabetics
Guinep contains much less sugar and high dietary fibers which is great for your cholesterol issues. You might keep your healthy body with amazingly easy, healthy and tasty.Â
5. Maintains Digestive System
Fibers, nothing beats fibers in promoting your digestive system. Fibers needed to clean and absorb any kind of non digestive substances inside your stomach. It clears your intestines and caught every substance that sticks in your intestine.
6. Bones Strengthening Mechanism
Calcium and Vitamins contained in guinep is quiet high, for some amount of it might be the best cure of your bone problems or protection. Calcium might replace and defending your bones from porosity and / or strengthening your bones. Furthermore, it might reduce your bones or joints problems.
7. Reduce Anxiety and insomnia
Guinep not only good for your bones, it might also effecting your neural system. Minerals found in guinep soothe your neural system, and stabilize your mood. Magnesium and calcium is the best agent not only for your bones, but it might reduce your leaking in magnesium or calcium deficiency related to insomnia. The same as Tibetan Massage Health Benefits
8. Promotes Healthy Eyes
Vitamin C, as an antioxidant, and improvement in eyesight, is good for your health, mostly for children who under development. Vitamin C helps you to strengthen the cornea and retina to prevent weak eyesight issues, like sightedness and cataract.Â
Here are more health benefits of Guinep Fruit:
9. Improve your Urinary SystemÂ
10. Mood Stabilizer
11. Anti CarcinogenicÂ
12. Prevent Hypertension
Cautions in Eating Guinep
Besides the health benefits of eating Guinep or Spanish lime including the other kinds of fruit or lime like health benefits of ube fruit and health benefits of exotic fruitsor heatlh benefits of mosambi (sweet lime fruit), we still need to watch our intake of guinep. One of the cautions we need to pay attention is that any kind of lime including guinep contains ample of sodium. Sodium is effective to increase the blood pressure.
Therefore, eating guinep might not be good for those with hypertension and heart disorder. Furthermore, the unripe fruit of guinep is poisonous. You have to be really cautious when you want to eat guinep. Make sure that it is the ripe one, ask people when you can’t divide whether the ripe and the unripe one. Guinep poison might be a fatal damage for your body. Another ways to eat guinep doesn’t effect guinep when it comes to it cautious according to their poisons act in the unripe one. In neither way, the unripe guinep is dangerous for our body.
Also, guinep juice might stain your clothes, so please be careful to peel the skin. The ripe one has soft jelly taste like. It is really slippery and difficult to handle for someone inexperienced. Watch carefully for your clothes. Guinep has quiet big seed in it, so, it might be dangerous for children. Make sure parents take guinet’s seed out before let children consume it. To prevent children from choking and hazard.