GUAVA
GUAVA Guava ( Psidium guajava L.) is one of the famous fruit plant which contain a great number of bioactive compounds having beneficial role to human health. Due to its multidirectional health benefits the fruit is often called as “super food”. It has been valued as a food and medicinal plant since ancient time. Over a long period the fruit is only consumed by the people of tropical and subtropical region (Deguchi et al. 2010). Guava is a familiar fruit in the daily life of most parts of world because of its characteristic flavour, availabity throught the year and less expensive price. Since past few decades the fruit has gained high demand due to its health benefits. It is believed to have originated from Mexico or Central America and is now very popular in Asian countries and is also increasingly available in other countries, particularly after the exposure of information about its health benefits (Uzzaman et al. 2018). Due to its high demand it is abundantly ...