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I was sceptical, but I ended up fascinated by Rowanberry Juice (programming.dev)
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The taste is unlike anything I've tried, but it certainly makes me think of the forest. It's sweet and fruity, but with a little bitter aftertaste, similar to that of lingonberries. The color is a dark red-orange when made following the recipe, and a pink-orange when diluted as in the photo.

Process-wise, it's important to freeze the berries first to break down the starch into sugar, and to boil it to break down the parasorbic acid into sorbic acid.

It took a couple of hours time to forage for enough berries, but I found about 280 grams, enough for about 1 liter of juice. It was a bit of a hassle to pick the berries clean afterwards and avoid yucky insects.

I now look at the rowan trees around me in a very different way, because they suddenly became food, haha

Recipe: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/rognebaersaft

A glass of rowanberry juice. Light orange-pink in color
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[–] 12 points 1 month ago (8 children)

What other less known berries have you worked with?

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Perhaps cloudberries, woodland strawberries, and bilberries. I'm also interested in trying crowberries, but I think they grow pretty far from urban areas

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Whats your favorite berry of all time, like if you could only have one on a deserted island?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I'm torn between cloudberries and blackberries. Maybe perfectly ripe blackberries, since they're so mild and sweet. But I always get hyped when I see a product with cloudberries in it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    So one weird berry which I tried recently: Black Nightshade, it grows from small potatoish looking plants, the berries are smaller than 1cm in diameter. The flavour is like blackcurrant but the raw taste is actually pleasant (unlike blackcurrants which make a beautiful drink called ribena, but are a somewhat disappointing raw fruit, flavoursome but not very sweet)

    It's worth mentioning it's not the same thing as Deadly Nightshade, they both have black berries but black nightshade hang in small clusters whereas deadly nighshade exist as single fruits, cupped and face upward.

    Yew berries are ones I still want to try but am in no hurry to, as the red flesh is edible but the seed contained within is deadly.

    I've wanted to try cloudberries for years but have never gotten the chance, how would you describe them?

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