berries

berries
17.09.2023

Lingonberry is a berry that pleases with its appearance, smell, color, and unique properties. The taste is sweet and sour, with a slight hint of bitterness, but quite pleasant and piquant. Rich in vitamins and minerals important for the body.

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fruit
16.09.2023

According to taste, grape varieties can be divided into four groups: ordinary taste, muscat taste, nightshade taste and isabella taste. Grapes are often used in cooking to make salads, syrups, jellies and jams.

Diana Dashkevich grapes health food facts Cooking 16 September 2023
eggplants
03.09.2023

The botanical definition of a berry can be quite different from what we commonly think of as a berry in everyday language. In botany, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower with seeds embedded in the flesh. 

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berries
27.08.2023

You can eat both black elderberry flowers and berries, which can only be eaten when they are fully ripe and turn black and purple. Eating unripe berries can cause poisoning.

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berries
25.08.2023

Cranberries are a natural antibiotic. The berry contains a large amount of flavonoids and proanthocyanidins, which have the ability to disrupt the attachment of bacteria to the mucous membranes of various organs. These biologically active substances also prevent the growth of bacteria and their reproduction.

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currants
23.08.2023

Black or red currants can be amazing for food, drinks, or baking - it's a very versatile fruit. Growing currants can be a rewarding and beneficial endeavor for a variety of reasons. 

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berries
19.08.2023

Raspberry shoots in the first year are fluffy, only their lower part is covered with thin brown spines. For 2 years, they grow stronger, begin to bear fruit, then dry up, and new shoots grow from the rhizome.

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berries
16.08.2023

The most useful are dark varieties - red and blue. Dark grape varieties are a storehouse of iron, thanks to which they maintain a normal level of hemoglobin in the blood.

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berries
14.08.2023

Chokeberry grows rapidly and begins to bear fruit from 3 years. From mid-August to September, its fruits ripen.

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berries
12.08.2023

Acai is a nutrient-rich berry that grows in the Brazilian Amazon forests. It is considered one of the most powerful and nutritious berries on the planet, which has been eaten for centuries due to its beneficial properties. Raw Acai berries are slightly bitter.

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frozen raspberries
11.08.2023

Freezing berries is a convenient way to preserve their freshness and enjoy them throughout the year.  However, there are certain mistakes that people often make when freezing berries that can affect their quality and taste. 

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berry plant
08.08.2023

While it seems logical to plant all berries at one part of your garden, it might actually be not a great idea. Certain berry plants have different growth requirements, and planting them together may not be ideal due to factors like soil preferences, sunlight needs, and susceptibility to diseases. 

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juice
08.08.2023

After drinking the drink, you need to rinse your teeth; Do not consume more than 3 glasses of cranberry juice per day; It is better to prepare a drink on your own or trust trusted manufacturers.

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berries
07.08.2023

About 1000 varieties of cherries are known in the world. Sweet cherry due to less winter hardiness is distributed lower than cherry. A vigorous tree enters into active fruiting at the age of 6-7 years.

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berries
06.08.2023

Sea buckthorn Orange or red sea buckthorn berries have a dense pulp covered with thin skin, with a specific taste: it is rather bitter and sour and leaves a long aftertaste. Some varieties, more often red-fruited, contain a hint of grapes in the aroma, which improves the taste of berries.

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persimmon
06.08.2023

The taste of persimmon depends on the variety and ranges from tart-astringent to sweet. In total, there are about a thousand varieties of berries - from red to dark brown, from round to almost square.

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berries
04.08.2023

Raspberries are aromatic and tasty berries that are delicious eaten raw or cooked. From the leaves of the shrub, you can brew a healthy herbal tea. Raspberries contain many vitamins and minerals: calcium, silicon, manganese, iron, phosphorus, zinc, vitamins of group B, C, A.

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berries
02.08.2023

You can plant a mulberry seedling in open ground in spring in April before the start of sap flow or in autumn in September-October before the onset of the rainy season.

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flowers
31.07.2023

Honeysuckle tastes a bit like blueberries - it is sweet-sour (often more sour than sweet). However, the main thing in it is not the taste: in terms of the amount of vitamin C, this berry is not inferior to lemon, and in terms of some macro- and microelements, it has no equal in nature at all.

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berries
30.07.2023

The fruits are juicy, but have a bitter astringent taste; after the first frost, the bitterness disappears or becomes less. The fruits ripen in August - September. Viburnum can live up to 50 years or more.

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