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Martin DA, Bolling BW. A review of the efficacy of dietary polyphenols in experimental models of inflammatory bowel diseases. Food Funct. 2015;6(6):1773-86. doi:10.1039/c5fo00202h Bilberry". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. 2016 . Retrieved 1 January 2017. 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. Where fraughans grow, cultivated blueberries seem to flourish best. Despite this, only two commercial blueberry farms operate on the island of Ireland and Derry Duff Farm is one of them. Perched high above the Bantry peninsula in West Cork, the farm is owned and run by Dr Steve Collins and his wife Claire, who bought the land 18 years ago and established an organic blueberry farm. Although bilberries are in high demand by consumers in Northern Europe, the berries are harvested in the wild without any cultivation. Some authors state that opportunities exist to improve the crop if cultivated using common agricultural practices. [13] [ bettersourceneeded] Bilberries have dark red juice that stains hands Chemistry [ edit ]

If you don’t fancy trudging to the more remote parts of Exmoor with a basket in hand then there are a few other ways to enjoy the Whortleberry without the hard work. Brendon Hill Crafts Whortleberry Jam MR. BODKIN. Q. Have you attended persons who have taken poison of this kind? A. No, not atropa-belladonna—it would produce nausea, vomiting, and perhaps coma— I do not think it would cause a bowel complaint—it would depend very much on the quantity—one or two bernes might produce that. Kosehira M, Machida N, Kitaichi N. A 12-Week-Long Intake of Bilberry Extract ( Vaccinium myrtillus L.) Improved Objective Findings of Ciliary Muscle Contraction of the Eye: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Comparison Trial. Nutrients. 2020;12(3):600. Published 2020 Feb 25. doi:10.3390/nu12030600 Sweeney M, Burns G, Sturgeon N, Mears K, Stote K, Blanton C. The effects of berry polyphenols on the gut microbiota and blood pressure: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials in humans. Nutrients. 2022;14(11):2263. doi:10.3390/nu14112263You can make a decent fruit leather from the fruits and with the addition of some pectin from, say, apples a good jelly can be made. Interesting is the fact that the constituent benzoic acid is a natural preservative of the berries, which means, unlike its cousin the bilberry, which is prone to fermentation if stored, cowberries can be easily preserved, even just stored in water. Elderberries In Sweden this berry is called lingon, where a pleasant cordial made from the berries is available. The unpleasant taste of the raw berries comes from the presence of both benzoic acid and oxalic acid. Cowberry or lingon has been an important wild berry for people of the north. Photo: Paul Kirtley. Bilberry and the related V. uliginosum both produce lignins, in part because they are used as defensive chemicals. [14] Although many plants change their lignin production – usually to increase it – to handle the stresses of climate change, lignin levels of both Vaccinium species appear to be unaffected. [14] Chan SW, Chu TTW, Choi SW, Benzie IFF, Tomlinson B. Impact of short-term bilberry supplementation on glycemic control, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and antioxidant status in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes [published correction appears in Phytother Res. 2022 Apr;36(4):1836]. Phytother Res. 2021;35(6):3236-3245. doi:10.1002/ptr.7038

It’s generally recommended the berries shouldn’t be consumed raw, though, certainly not in any great quantity. All green parts of the plant, including the berries, are mildly irritant as well as containing cyanogenic glycosides. There is also a distinctive and somewhat unpleasant sharp smell to the crushed leaves or shoots. Eating quantities of raw berries, particularly if a little unripe, can cause stomach upsets, including nausea and vomiting. The problematic compounds are nullified by heat, so cooking the fruit is always recommended. Strip the berries off the stalks (a fork is handy for this job), discarding the latter. Jams made from mixing the fruit with gooseberries are particularly good. Rowan Vaccinium myrtillus or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry. [2] It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortleberry to distinguish it from other Vaccinium relatives.Antignani PL, Allegra C. Pharmacological treatment of chronic venous disease. Acta Phlebologica. 2015;16(3):111-20. As a native shrub, fraughans make perfect hedgerow plants, especially in acidic soil areas where not much else can thrive. Their dense structure creates a perfect habitat for birds, insects and small mammals; the flowers provide fodder for bees; and its fruit is food for wild birds.

Phytophthora". Natural England. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012 . Retrieved 26 June 2011. Cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, is closely related to bilberry but in a number of respects is quite different. The plant is a low-growing, spreading small evergreen shrub. It has glossy oval leaves, turned down around the edges with a lighter underside and visible glands underneath. It’s widespread on moorlands and heaths, often alongside bilberry. The fruits are red and are edible but really quite unpalatable, being very sharp and acidic. Despite this obstacle, the cowberry has been an important food for people of the north, both in Eurasia as well as North America. Vaccinium myrtillus is a Holarctic species native to continental Northern Europe, the British Isles, north and central Asia, Japan, Greenland, Iceland, Western Canada, and the Western United States. It occurs in the acidic soils of heaths, boggy barrens, degraded meadows, open forests and parklands, slopes, and moraines. [9] [10] Uses [ edit ] The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on 5⁄ 64– 1⁄ 8in) long pedicels. The corolla is pink and shaped like an urn. The leaves are finely toothed and prominently veined on the lower surface. The group contains around 450 species, most of which live in the cooler and more westerly parts of the northern hemisphere. However, a few are found south of the equator. Just to complete the picture of horticultural confusion, many of these species can hybridise – and then goodness only knows what you’d call them!On the one hand: “Great rivalry existed between the different parishes and each was jealous over what was considered our territory.” Ozawa Y, Kawashima M, Inoue S, et al. Bilberry extract supplementation for preventing eye fatigue in video display terminal workers. J Nutr Health Aging. 2015;19(5):548-54. doi:10.1007/s12603-014-0573-6

Winberries / Wimberries – sometimes also written as whinberries, whimberries or whynberries are also known as:- Fasinu PS, Bouic PJ, Rosenkranz B. An overview of the evidence and mechanisms of herb-drug interactions. Front Pharmacol. 2012;3:69. doi:10.3389/fphar.2012.00069 Late summer and early autumn is the berry high season. Berries are easy to spot, often grow in quantity and are relatively easy to collect compared to, say, digging up roots and other underground storage organs. Edible berries generally require little processing yet most are also easily preserved as a jelly, jam or leather. Most of our native berries are overlooked or avoided by the majority of the population, even though much fruit from around the world is bought in supermarkets and enjoyed by many. The Whortleberry is the Devon name given to the wild blueberries that grow on the Moors in Devon and the West Country.Neamtu AA, Szoke-Kovacs R, Mihok E, et al. Bilberry (vaccinium myrtillus l.) extracts comparative analysis regarding their phytonutrient profiles, antioxidant capacity along with the in vivo rescue effects tested on a drosophila melanogaster high-sugar diet model. Antioxidants (Basel). 2020;9(11):1067. doi:10.3390/antiox9111067 Disease of Bilberry (Phytophthora)". Staffordshire County Council. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018 . Retrieved 26 January 2018. Along hedgerows and up Ireland's boggy hillsides grow small, wild berries, sweetened by summer sun and heralding the beginning of harvest. These purple berries are known as fraughans, from the Irish fraochán. Other names include herts (hurts or hursts), bilberry, whortleberry, whimberry or cowberry. They are the wild cousin to the cultivated blueberry, with an intense sweetness and juiciness that belies their diminutive size. Schaeffer J. Latest scoop on berries — Harvard study shows heart health benefits for young women. Today’s Dietitian. 2013;15(6):16.