Berries

What is a berry? It is an ovary swaddled within a sugary womb. Plainly put, a berry is the fruition of a flower — the ultimate tautology - Hope Jahren

Berries

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Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry


Most of the plants around you produce flowers. The petals may be beautiful, but they are little more than a frame for stamen and carpel, which serve as the keepers of pollen and ovary. It takes only one pollen grain to trigger fertilization — to spur the ovary walls to thicken and swell and become fruit. The flesh of a blueberry surrounds one ovary, while a raspberry is a jumble of multiple ovaries; each is the product of a single flower.

Green as the leaves beneath them, immature fruit use sunlight to manufacture sugar, and in this way they ripen. All this effort is to clothe a seed, and to slightly better its chances of germination. Fruit is meant to be a fertilizer shot to…

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 Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry

Berries clothe seeds and fertilize them when they drop to the ground, and one summer they taught a young woman to savor time.

NutsandBlueberries.com

Hi, my name is Janine and I share my passion for a healthy vegetarian and vegan lifestyle on this blog sind 2015. The recipes you find here are refined-sugar free, mostly simply to prepare and free from any meat.

Superberries

Superberries is a brand of health and wellness products featuring Nature’s Healer and Protector – the Aronia Berry (Chokeberry). Aronia Berries are known for having one of the highest levels of antioxidants. Driven to support his personal experience with scientific proof of the aroniaberries health benefits, Kenny has been instumental in supporting numerous studies both foreign and domestic.

Wild Blueberries

Frozen fresh Wild Blueberries are wildly different from regular blueberries you find in the produce section. They pack more intense blueberry flavor into their tiny blue bodies than any other blueberry on this big blue planet – making them the blueberry of choice for anyone interested in cooking, baking, making smoothies and more.

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