Apple pear
- China.org.cn, January 11, 2017
The fruit is oblate, and covered with red dots. It looks like apples, and thus named apple pear. Analysis shows its water containment is 85.9 percent, total acid is 0.33 percent, reducing sugar is 8.33 percent, and its total sugar is 9.69 percent. The fruit is rich in Vitamin C, B1 and B2, as well as calcium, phosphorous and iron. It is nutritious, moistens lung, dissolves phlegm, relieves cough, relieves internal heat, clears away the heart-fire and is diuretic.