PERUVIAN FOOD AND NATURAL PRODUCTS

Here we want to offer you a small guide of tipical products and food of Peru. We also want to show the world, some natural products who grow in Peruvian soil, wich in many cases, are use to cure some medical problems.

THE GUANABANA

NAMES: Guanábana, huanábano, masasamba, corosol, cachimán,
huana-huana (shipibo), graviola (Portuguese).

DESCRIPTION: It is a tree of up to 10 ms high, with simple leaves and flowers ready in short stems that they appear of the old branches.
Its fruit is great, covered with smooth and fleshy thorns, of thin rind and white, creamy, substantial and somewhat acid pulp, with numerous seeds of black or brown color.

DISTRIBUTION: It is own of tropical zones and has been introduced to several countries.

ORIGIN: This tree has been domesticated in the Amazonía and Central America. In the coast of our country was cultivated since 1.200. a.c

USES:

* Food: The fresh pulp of the fruit is consumed directly; with her ice creams are prepared, juice, nectars, candies, jams and yogures. The immature fruits are put under coccióny are consumed like vegetable.

* Medicinal: It is good against the raquitismo, diabetes, colds, indigestión, intestinal parasitism and the cancer. Also it is used to him like antispasmodic, antidisentérico, antipyretic

* Pesticida: The leaves are used to eliminate lice and the seeds reduced to dust like insecticide.

* Agroforestería. Wood: in order to prepare yokes.

CULTURE: One cultivates in zones of subtropical and tropical climate with temperatures superior to 12º C and precipitations to him superior to 1.000 mm; in the coast it is cultivated under irrigation. It prefers drained grounds affluent, deep, of average texture and one
propagates by seeds and graft. He is very delicate for the transport by his sensitivity to the crushing.

POTENTIAL: He is excellent for the product elaboration of exotic flavors and by their possibility of integration to agroforestales systems. to absorption of the iron and it prevents the anemia with the sportsman.