Home Made Guava Juice

The guava fruit is just like any other fruits around which can be made into juice. We are going to discuss on this post about how to make your own guava juice at home. All you need to do is to gather all the required supplies from the market and you are good to go.

Buying Guava Fruits from the Market

It is important for you to know how to determine ripe and unripe guava fruits when buying from the market or grocery store. This applies the same when you are picking the fruits from the guava tree. The most common method of identifying ripe guava fruit is the color must be yellow and the skin must be soft. Please read the previous post entitled 'How to Know When a Guava is Ripe?' to learn more additional details about identifying when the fruit is already ripe for the picking.

Cleaning your Guava Fruit

The best method of cleaning your guava fruit is to wash each of them on a cool and clean running water. Take one fruit at a time then rub it with your hands to ensure that every possible dirt on the skin of the fruit will be cleaned. Do not use soap for cleaning your guava fruits as some chemical contents of the soap are hard to get rid-off. Worse is that, it can be dangerous to your health when consumed. Thus, never use soap for cleaning your guava fruit.

Peel the Skin if you have Diabetes

According to the recent studies that has been conducted by the experts, the skin of the guava fruit contains high sugar content. They had estimated that eating the skin could increase your blood sugar level for up to 95%. This is the reason why you have to peel-off the skin if you are suffering from a diabetic disorder. If you are not then its best suggested that you are to use the entire fruit in making your home-made guava juice. You have to know that there are higher contents of essential nutrients found on the skin of the fruit.

Slicing it into Pieces

You can cut your guava fruits into halves, quarters or at any sizes to fit them into your blender machine.

Adding Some Additional Ingredients

Add a couple of spoon sugar if you want your juice to have a sweeter taste. For those who love lemon, you can simply squeeze half of a lemon fruit. Doing this will combine the taste of both the guava and lemon fruit. Others find it more tastier by adding milk.

Guava Lemon Juice

If you find that the taste of your guava juice to be quite great then you can control it by adding water.

Is It Better to Buy Ready Made Guava Juice?


There are plenty of juices available on the market containing different flavors and this includes the guava fruit. The question is, are they better than the home-made type of juices? 'No' will be the answer unless you really do not care but simply to satisfy your thirst.

Most drinking products that are available on the market contains high contents of sugar. This could be bad for you if you have diabetes. Apart from the high level of sugar content found on these products, there might be other secret ingredients added that are not good for your health.

Home-made juice are the best way to go especially if you are seeking for health benefits.

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