Footeside Farm Dried Quandong Halves (50g)

Footeside Farm Dried Quandong Halves (50g) (Australia's Wild Peach).

Reconstitute in water or fruit juice.  Quandong fruit can be dried and frozen for some 8 years or more, without losing any flavour.  

The ripe, sweet extured flesh of the Quandong is eaten straight, though it can also be dried and stored for future use. It has a sweet taste with a balancing slightly sour and salty aftertaste and a mild aroma of dry lentils with some earthy fermented touches.

Quandongs were much valued for their medicinal properties.

• use as a tea as a purgative
• the roots of the quandong tree were ground down as an infusion (tea) for treatment of rheumatism
• the leaves and kernels were crushed and mixed with saliva to produce a topical ointment for skin sores and boils
• kernels were crushed  and used as a form of "hair conditioning oil".