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The Exmoor whortleberry is also known as the bilberry or the European blueberry, is a small, low-growing shrub that is commonly found in heathlands, moors, and other acidic soils throughout Europe. It is a popular wild fruit that has long been used for its medicinal properties.

Rosehips have long been used in herbal medicine, considered good for coughs and sore throats amongst other things. The hips contain a good amount of ascorbic acid, vitamin C. Indeed during the Second World War, with little or no citrus fruits available in the UK, rosehips became a valuable source of vitamin C in the form of rosehip syrup. Fresh hips contain 0.1-1.0% ascorbic acid – around ten times the concentration found in orange juice. Rosehips are impressively nutritious. Photo: Paul Kirtley. The leaf, when it appears in spring, resembles that of a maple, with three or five lobes. The fruits are small, about the size of garden peas. If you look closely at these little red jewels, you will notice that the skins are somewhat translucent and in bright sunshine you can see seeds within. You’ll also notice there are lines from stem to base like lines of longitude on a globe. These are features it shares with gooseberries, the family of which currants share. Red currants are jewel-like globes of goodness. Photo: Paul Kirtley.There are some great free fruit flavours out there if only you take the time to seek them out. Moreover, many wild berry species are highly nutritious containing not only energy but also many vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients that are hard to find so easily, or in such concentrations, elsewhere. From an historical perspective, a good number of the berries listed here have been important foods, particularly for people not reliant on agricultural crops. Winberries are much more acidic than Blueberries. They can be eaten without cooking, but are far more palatable when used to bake tarts or as an accompanyment to meat dishes. Vaccinia alba, or the white Wortle, is like vnto the former, both in stalks and leaues, but the berries are of a white colour, wherein consisteth the difference. If you associate berries with autumn, then it’s easy to miss the red currant, Ribes rubrum. These fruits are typically ripe before the end of July, particularly further south. Their season does cross over with raspberries, though, and the combination of these fresh wild fruits is a very good one. The sweetness of the raspberries offsets the acidity of the red currants. Personally I like red currants on their own too but some people find them a little tart to consume in any quantity. Chan SQ, Tomlinson B. Effects of bilberry supplementation on metabolic and cardiovascular disease risk. Molecules. 2020; 25(7):1653.

The fruits will stain hands, teeth and tongue deep blue or purple while eating and so it was traditionally used as a dye for food and clothes in Britain. [11] Bilberries above Merthyr Tydfil, on Mynydd Aberdâr Fruit [ edit ] Cross-examined by MR. CLARKSON. Q. Do you use bilberries? A. I never saw them—I have seen the berry of the Portugal laurel in the garden—that has a small eye at the top—it is a small red berry—it is like these in form, but it has a stone inside—I never saw the wortle-berry. In Ireland, the fruit is known as fraughan, from the Irish fraochán, and is traditionally gathered on the last Sunday in July, known as "Fraughan Sunday". Bilberries were also collected at the Celtic festival of Lughnasadh in August, the first traditional harvest festival of the year. The crop of bilberries was said to indicate how well the rest of the crops would fare in their harvests later in the year. Schaeffer J. Latest scoop on berries — Harvard study shows heart health benefits for young women. Today’s Dietitian. 2013;15(6):16. The fruit is a soft, bright red berry up to 6 millimeters in width. It has a tart flavor. [5] Uses [ edit ] Wildlife [ edit ]This article is about the wild "European" blueberry. For the commonly cultivated "American" blueberry, see Blueberry. For other uses, see Bilberry (disambiguation). Bilberries in Finland

Most of the shops of Germany do call them Myrtilli, but properly 〈◊〉: 〈◊〉 are the 〈◊〉 of the Myrtle tree, as the Apothecaries name them at this day. This plant hath no name for ought wee can learne, either among the Greekes or antient Latines; for whereas most doe take it to be Vitis Idaea, or the Corinth tree, which Pliny syrnameth 〈◊〉, it is vntrue; for Vitis Idaea is not on∣ly like to the common Vine, 〈◊〉 is also a kinde of Vine: and 〈◊〉, who hath made 〈◊〉 hereof doth call it, without an Epethete, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, simply, as a little after we wil declare; which with∣out doubt he would not haue done if he had found it to differ from the common Vine: For what things soeuer receiue a name of some plant, the same are expressed with some 〈◊〉 added to be known to differ from others; as Laurus Alexandrina, Vitis alba, Vitis nigra, Vitis syluestris, and such like. A set of species very obviously part of the rose family are the wild roses in the genus Rosa. All species produce rose-hips, which are the fruits. Rosehips contain hairy seeds in the centre, surrounded by (normally red) flesh that is quite acid to the taste. Rosehips can be consumed raw. Simply remove the hairy seeds, which can be an irritant to the throat, from the centre of each hip, maybe rinsing them a little afterwards. The pulpy flesh is then ready to consume.These plants prosper best in a lean barren soile, and in vntoiled wooddy places: they are now and then found on high hils subiect to the winde, and vpon mountaines: they grow plentifully in both the Germanies, Bohemia, and in diuers places of France and England; namely in Middlesex on Hampsted heath, and in the woods thereto adioyning, and also vpon the hills in Cheshire called Broxen hills, neere Beeston castle, seuen miles from the Nantwich; and in the wood by Highgate called Finchley wood, and in diuers other places. Vaccinium myrtillus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 12 December 2017. citing Wiersema, J. H. & B. León (1999), World economic plants: a standard reference, and Huxley, A., ed. (1992), The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Antignani PL, Allegra C. Pharmacological treatment of chronic venous disease. Acta Phlebologica. 2015;16(3):111-20. Kolehmainen M, Mykkänen O, Kirjavainen PV, et al. Bilberries reduce low-grade inflammation in individuals with features of metabolic syndrome. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2012;56(10):1501-10. doi:10.1002/mnfr.201200195