This post was inspired by Eat Your Kimchi's recent trip to Mexico, and their twitter post where they were totally clueless about guavas.
I could immediately relate to EYK's post because living in the US, Canada and Botswana, I couldn't recall ever seeing a guava fruit. Guavas are actually quite nutritious and contain Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Magnesium, etc. Growing up in Nigeria, guavas were everywhere. There was this crazy myth that eating the guava seeds were extremely bad for reasons I don't remember, so we would eat guavas and try to avoid the seeds as much as possible. A friend had a guava tree in their house and we would always try to climb the trees to pick some fruit. Oh, the joys of youth. Can't imagine climbing a tree now :(
That's the pic EYK posted. I wonder what the difference between red guavas and the more whitish type. Hmmm..
Reminiscing Mondays is a weekly post by Pearlle Magazine's contributors, sharing their memories about growing up in Africa.
