guavas

• “First, Cara picks guavas from the tree in her back yard.”

  Tourou part TWO

• “Just the aroma of fresh guavas is enough to inspire visions of lolling in a hammock in some tropical hideaway.”

  Guava Water: Agua de Guayaba

• “An Egyptian oasis garden produces many popular tree fruits such as guavas, pomegranates, apricots, and oranges which can be sold in local markets or consumed at home as delicious, high-vitamin treats.”

  14. Saving seeds for planting

• “Perhaps the single commonest indigenous suffix used as a place name element is - tepec [Chapultepec = hill of chapulines (grasshoppers); Jocotepec = hill of guavas].”

  Mexico's place names and their meanings

• “About 30 million pounds of imported produce, mostly fruits such as guavas and mangos, get a low-dose zap, not enough to kill germs but to kill any foreign insects along for the ride.”

  USA Today: Irradiation underused to fight E. coli in foods

• “Others were hanged, drawn, quartered, flogged and in one case bombarded with guavas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: His Wealth of Nations

• “Banana is a popular version, as is one made with guavas.”

  The Guardian: Nigel Slater's classic mango lassi

• “This Mexican tianguis merchant weighs out ripe guavas, mangos, chayotes, tomatoes and green onions for shoppers.”

  This Mexican tianguis merchant weighs out ripe guavas, mangos, chayotes, tomatoes and green onions for shoppers. Diced prickly pear cactus pads resemble green beans. © Daniel Wheeler, 2009

• “For three days I lived off guavas, OHIA-apples, and bananas, all of which grew wild in the jungle.”

  Chapter 26

• “By her front door is a vegetable patch where she grows enough maize, pumpkins, spinach, bananas, guavas and paw-paw to feed them all.”

  The Guardian: South Africa beyond the World Cup: hiking in the wild east

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