How to use the fruits of Japanese quince

Quince is a valuable aromatic fruit that looks like apples. It has a specific spicy flavor, astringency and rich composition. The fruit loves the warm climate and pours all summer, harvesting fruits in the fall. Like other late fruits, quince is rich in tannins and healthy sugar, and the list of its healing effects extends to many subsystems of the human body.

Quince composition

Quince fruits are rich in vitamins - A, E, B and C, trace elements - iron, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, copper, as well as healthy dietary fiber, fructose and amino acids.

Thanks to this, quince is able to strengthen the body and have such an effect:

1. Cleansing the blood, maintaining a balance of sugar and cholesterol.
2. The treatment of anemia, the restoration of body strength after serious illness and physical stress.
3. Hemostatic and healing effect: treatment of irritations, hemorrhoids, skin lesions, strengthening of the walls of blood vessels, healing of hematomas.
4. Prevention of varicose veins and restoration of vein elasticity.
5. Easy laxative and diuretic effect, binding and excretion of fluids and poisons from the body.
6. Cleansing the liver, choleretic effect.
7. Antimicrobial protection.
8. Help with dry cough, expectorant effect, removal of edema.
9. Removal of irritations and inflammations.
10. Normalization of sleep, stabilization of the nervous system.
11. Strengthening hair and improving skin, removing age spots, increasing the elasticity of curls and an easy tightening of the contours of the body and face.
12. Elimination of nausea, lethargy, chills, symptoms of poisoning.
13. Restoration of appetite.
14. Normalization of pressure.

Quince use

The peculiarity of the fruit is its characteristic astringent aftertaste and very fragrant sweet juice. The fruits are rich in pectin and starch. Therefore, it is rarely eaten raw. Quince juice is mixed with other sweeter bases - plum, peach, apple, banana, lychee. Slices are dried, stewed and preserved in syrup, stewed. During the heat treatment, the fruit becomes softer and sweeter, and its pleasant fruity taste is revealed.

The use of inedible quince parts

For a quick and pronounced effect for therapeutic purposes, extracts from quince seeds, decoctions of leaves and tinctures from the bark of a tree are used. Means help to remove mucus, phlegm from the body, stop inflammation, heal irritations, relieve swelling, calm intestinal upset, restore the liver and choleretic pathways, eliminate malaise, nausea, and motion sickness.

Quince decoctions are drunk to facilitate breathing in asthma, and lotions and baths are used for hemorrhoids. A decoction also helps to heal cracks in the heels, corns. Lotions help remove the fungus without drying out the nails and skin.

The infusion is used to wash hair to strengthen its structure, revitalize the bulb and slow down the appearance of gray hair. It also helps improve skin condition for dandruff.Tonics with the addition of quince decoction soothe the skin, accelerate cell regeneration, stimulate the production of collagen, which increases the elasticity of the skin and tightens the oval of the face. The tool removes puffiness under the eyes and accelerates the movement of lymph. Lotions with this tincture help to heal traces of acne and irritation of the eye mucosa. Antiseptic substances will help eliminate acne and tighten pores.

Fruit acids effectively fight traces of uneven tanning, age spots and freckles. For cosmetic purposes, it is useful to use both a decoction of the inedible parts of quince and the fruit part. Masks are made from mashed potatoes, and pieces of fruit are used as a whitening compress.

To prepare a decoction of quince seeds, you need to boil 10 g of seeds in 100 ml of water until a thick consistency is formed. Such a decoction is drunk for expectoration and relieving inflammation of 1 tbsp. 3 times a day or used for lotions in damaged areas to relieve redness, itching and accelerate healing.

Contraindications

Quince fruits rarely cause allergies and are generally harmless. Caution should be given to people with sensitive intestines. With constipation in the slagged intestine, pectin can cause bloating, seething, and discomfort.

Fresh juice, especially when it comes to unripe fruits, can irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa, and also affect the vocal cords. To avoid discomfort, consume quince in processed form.

The biggest danger lies in the grains of fruit. Amygdalin is contained there - a strong poison that fruit plants store in order to protect themselves from predators. The substance causes nausea, dizziness, confusion, and poisons internal organs. However, it acts only in large doses. So quince seeds become unsafe only if consumed more than 70 g. In small doses, the body copes with the harmful compound and benefits from other components of the fruit.

If you do not overeat quince apples, they are able to gently cleanse and strengthen the body. This is especially useful before the onset of cold weather.

Quince drinks

Tea made from quince fruits and leaves gives a very delicate aroma and pleasant unobtrusive taste. It is brewed from dried fruit slices without adding a tea leaf or with noble varieties for flavoring.

Such a drink strengthens the immune system, saves you from coughing, tones up the pressure, strengthens the heart muscle and normalizes digestion. Quince tea is good in that it is not a therapeutic agent. You can drink it just to quench your thirst, to keep warm in the cold. It is pleasant both warm and cool. Quince compote or tea will be useful for people suffering from insomnia, overwork, neurasthenia. It does not contain caffeine, helps to balance the nervous system, invigorates due to vitamins and fruit components, controls the feeling of hunger.

To smooth out the acidity and astringency of the fruit, compote is made from them with the addition of sugar. You can combine quince with seasonal "brothers" and dried fruits: plums, pears, dried apricots and other fruits to taste. You can add cinnamon, ginger and other spices to the drink. Compote is boiled for about 10 minutes, after which it needs to be insisted. You can roll up a drink for the winter.

Baked fruit

Besides the fact that baked fruit is tasty and can be an excellent dessert, it also has a beneficial effect on the body in cases of poisoning, nausea and intestinal ailments. The amount of starch and pectin in a heat-treated fruit decreases, it does not cause flatulence, gently binds toxins, removes excess fluid from the body, has a laxative effect, and eliminates constipation.

Quince is baked on the table with sugar, honey, spices and other fruits.

Stewed slices or mashed potatoes can be used as a filling for dough or as a base for milk fruit cream.

Jam and marmalade

Quince makes a very tasty unusual jam and jam or jelly. Due to the high content of natural thickener, it is not necessary to add gelatin to it at all. Jam cooked in sugar is gelled to a pleasant, soft texture that holds its shape. Delicious dessert can be closed in jars or served with tea.

To get clear jelly, put quince slices under water, strain out the juice, add sugar in a ratio of 700 g per 1 liter of base - and cook until the syrup thickens. Add citric acid before cooking. If desired, jelly can be tinted with the desired color of food coloring. The syrup is poured into molds and allowed to cool, after which it is stored in the refrigerator.

To obtain marmalade, grind the baked fruits in mashed potatoes, add sugar, mix thoroughly until smooth. It is better to beat the mass in a blender. After this, cook until thickened. The mass is laid out in a convenient dish and cools. You can make pastille from the blank.

Other crop storage guidelines

1. You can freeze quince pulp. To do this, it is recommended to wash the fruits, remove the villi, clean the core and rub the fruit on a coarse grater. The raw materials are packaged in polyethylene, air is released and sent to the freezer.
2. Strong fruits can be stored whole in a cool, dark place. To do this, you need to select fruits without bruises and wrap each individually in thick paper. This will save not only vitamins, but also a pleasant aroma of “apples”. In the refrigerator, the fruit will last up to 4 months.
3. In order to save quince seeds for medicinal purposes, it is necessary to select grains from whole healthy fruits, dry them at a temperature of 45 degrees and store them in closed containers for no more than a year.
4. Leaves are harvested at the time of flowering trees. Large whole sheets are taken, dried in a dark place or in an electric dryer and put into special linen bags or glass jars that are tightly closed.

How to dry fruits

Quince fruits are harvested in late autumn before frost. At this point, they are filled with sugar and juice. Only ripe undamaged quince apples should be selected for storage of the crop. Overripe or sodden fruits are best consumed right away. Cut off all the dark areas and make pulp juice or compote. Also, slices of such fruits can be dried.

For long-term storage, quince apples are dried in slices. This can be done in an oven at 90 degrees or an electric dryer at 50 degrees, so that more vitamins and the original taste of the fruits are preserved. The temperature should not exceed 100 degrees, so that the beneficial substances inside the fruit are not destroyed.

First, the fruit must be washed, cleaned of seeds and cut into slices. With electric drying, the fruit is caramelized with sugar. To do this, they are boiled in syrup for 5-6 minutes, filtered, dried in air, and then left to dry in the dryer for 6 hours.

The useful properties of quince are preserved even after processing, so the preserves, compotes and dried fruits from this fruit will come in handy in winter during a vitamin deficiency for the prevention and treatment of colds, as well as the general healing of the body.

Video: Japanese quince mashed with sugar