Quince Fruit

Quince Fruit Benefits | Quince Fruits Explained

By Yanti

Quince fruit (Cydonia oblonga) originated from southwest Asia in the Caucasus area. This fruit include in the family the genus Cydonia. Quince fruit is shaped like pear fruit with green color when raw and has yellow color when ripe with a strong scent. Quince fruit has a size of about 6-9 cm. and the Turkish state is the biggest quince fruit producing countries in the world today.

Quince fruits are widely used to make jelly, jam, pudding, cookies, mixed in a dish of meat, or also peeled for baked, boiled or baked before consumption because if eaten raw Quince fruit in general is too hard, with a taste sour and astringent that contained in fruit. And because high levels of acid in quince fruit mainly malic acid content make quince fruit can also be used to make wine.

Quince Nutrition

There is some nutrition that has benefit for body in quince fruits and some of them are Vitamin A, B complex, C, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, carbohydrate, protein, and fiber.

Quince benefits

Apart made quince jelly or jam fruit also provides benefits to both human health or for other purposes and are as follows:

- Quince fruit seeds are collected and boiled and then ingested to use as a remedy for pneumonia and lung disease.

- Quince fruit helps in digestion and weight loss. Quince is also known to lower cholesterol levels in the body.

- Along with tea, especially green tea, quince fruit tea is also used as an additive that gives slightly sweet taste and scent.

- With a high level of pectin in the fruit to make fruit quince is useful for the purpose of canning.

- Many culinary recipes that use quince fruit made in the form of pulp, slices of quince fruit or juice. In quince fruit recipes can be tried as a substitute apples or pears that it tastes like a mixture of apples and pears.

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

• Related posts on cydonia oblonga
• Quitte, Quittenbaum, Cydonia oblonga

• Related posts on quince fruit
• Apple Crisp « Straight from the Farm
• Inexpensive Colon Cleansing Home Remedy – Bowtrol Colon Cleanse
• New harvests in infanthood…