BLACKBERRIES: AN ORIGINAL SUPERFOOD

Dear Readers:

It soon will be blackberry time here in Tennessee.  Love these little berries.  Here is an excerpt from the  article about why they are considered a superfood.  To read the entire article, click on the link below the picture.  

"Every year all over United States, parts of South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, blackberries fruit and ripen, often wild and untended, offering a luscious treat to anyone who will pick them. Oddly, the shiny black fruits are not actually berries, but technically “aggregate drupelets.” That is to say blackberries are composed of many little round fruit bodies containing seeds, all of them clustered together in the shape of a raspberry. Each fruit is more like a cluster of grapes than a single berry. Blackberries go by several other names, including brambleberries, dewberry, and thimbleberry, due to their thimble-like shape.

Blackberry fruits were widely used by various Native American tribes. The fruit was sometimes juiced and drunk; the berries were eaten fresh, and were also dried and stored for use in colder weather. Various native recipes for blackberries include mixing them with animal fat, with fish eggs, or preserved in grease. The preserved high-energy berries provided natural sugars and vitamins during winter months..."

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