They are different species after all, another difference could be seen slicing them and putting them side by side, the pulp should have a different color too
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Or storebought blueberries and wild bilberries?
You can get both of these at my grocery store. Right next to each other. Sometimes the same brand, sometimes different. I grew up eating off the tree/large bush and found all different sizes on the same tree. Main difference is the flavor.
Main difference is the flavor.
Can you elaborate?
One tastes like blueberry, unlike the other which tastes like blueberry.
The bigger ones are sweet, sometimes too sweet, and don’t have a strong berry taste. They go good in like corn flakes or something when you need a healthy add-in. The smaller ones have a stronger flavor and can be too tart depending on if they are actually ripe. Sometimes they look ripe but if they are hard they are not ready to eat.
High bush vs low bush blueberries. They're so different they may as well be a separate berry.
There’s also rabbiteye, which are similar to high bush but have lower cool hour requirements. Maybe it’s a subtype of high bush, but horticulturists around my area note a distinct difference in them.
Do you call them that because the bushes themselves look different?
The wild sort grow in low shrubs up to maybe mid-shin whereas the one you bu from the garden centre is more of a bush
Odds are the ones on the left are Driscoll's genetic berries. Neat youtube documentary on Driscoll's monopoly on the berry market.
Anyone who spends time in nature will tell you about varietals. You are being deliberately aggravating against readily accessible fruit. It's still fruit. It's still healthy. It's strange you would gatekeep berries.
Those are probably only different species, maturation levels or even size of the same species, cut the crap
Also, stop reposting :3
*not shown - flavor is inverse to size.
I had to explain this to a person I care much about once... Some balls are big and some are small, I just happen to have one of each. They're both delicious.
There's no difference in health value per berry. Smaller berries gives you more bang for your buck.
these are different species? Here we call the left ones American blue berries and the right ones would be our native ones, that are blue/purble inside; Americans would however call them bilberries.
Bluebarries in many store-bought "blueberry" muffins: blue coloring with bits of minced grape skins for convincing texture.
The most interesting part is the wild ones are even better for you than the store bought. Much more concentrated nutrients in all wild foods.

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