A fruit that’s in season from October through January, quinces belong to the rose family, as do apples, pears, and peaches. They grow on small, shrub-like trees that flower and later produce the fist-size, lumpy, often fuzzy fruit.
Health benefits of quince
- Quince is a low-calorie fruit. 100 g fresh raw fruit provides 57 calories. Besides, it composes several vital poly-phenolic antioxidants than apples and pears.
- It has several phenolic compounds such as caffeoylquinic acid, procyanidin-B2, oligomeric procyanidin, polymeric procyanidin, etc.
- Ripe quince fruit has a good concentration of vitamin-C. 100 g fruit provides 15 mg or 25% of RDA of vitamin-C. Fruits rich in this vitamin help remove harmful oxygen-free radicals from the body.