The guava is a round yellow tropical fruit with pink or white flesh and hard seeds. The taste has been described as a mix of strawberry, mango and pear. The fruit and leaves of the guava tree have been used in traditional medicine in many cultures throughout Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. Some of the conditions it is used for include inflammation, pain relief, rheumatism and fever. Originating in Southern Mexico the guava has travelled across the tropics, carried by the Spanish and Potuguese, and developed into multiple varieties with either pink or white flesh. In the Philippines it was once considered a poisonous and forbidden fruit, before a kind and generous boy by the name of Bay Abas asked the forest gods to make it edible for a passerby - a hungry old woman. When you drink a Raspberry & Guava Goodrays we’d like to ask that you think of us as that boy and yourself as the hungry old woman…