Chinese flowering quince, another name is long life fruit, is the third one of Lingnan four well-known fruits. The source area of Chinese flowering quince is South America Mexico, and spread to our country in 17th century, Area South China has the planter, but is most centralized by the Guangzhou suburbs, and he quality is also the best. Good varieties in Guangzhou have Lingnan Plant, Red Spike, and the Thai Red Meat etc. The first plant is best for its quality. Its fruit oval is plentiful, the meat is thick while seed are few, and it has the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance.
The Chinese flowering quince includes the rich sugar, the protein and many kinds of Vitamins. It can purify the mind, run the lung and stop coughing, it can dispel summer heat, drive out the cold and urge mother's milk. When picking the ripen Chinese flowering quince on the tree, the fragrance are strong and tastes tenderly, which other fruit is hard to compare. If adding the crystal sugar to cook the food, then has the effect of running lung and purifying the mind. The immature Chinese flowering quince may be used to be the sugar soak or the salt acid, and eaten as vegetable. The Chinese flowering quince cooked to be soup with fish may treat gastric disease, get rid of to the lung heat and make the parturient woman to increase the milk. The Chinese flowering quince also may be made to many kinds of China and the West drugs of sterilization antibacterial, the aid digestion, treating gastric disease and even anti-cancer. In industry, it is the raw material of making the refinement enzyme. |