Blueberries are Soooo good for you

NAC4EV

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In our area they have been in season for a number weeks.
There many road side fruit stands and I have been eating about 3/4 pound a day.
We have about 20lbs frozen so far.

Blueberries are a good source of vitamin K. They also contain vitamin C, fiber, manganese and other antioxidants (notably anthocyanins). Valued for its high levels of antioxidants, The fiber, potassium, folate, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and phytonutrient content in blueberries supports heart health. The absence of cholesterol from blueberries is also beneficial to the heart. Fiber content helps to reduce the total amount of cholesterol in the blood and decrease the risk of heart disease.
Some nutritionists believe that if you make only one change to your diet, it should be to add blueberries.
 
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lxskllr

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Mine quit about 3 weeks ago. All the berries are done. Blueberries come first, then wineberries, and blackberries finish out the season. Got the last blackberries last week.
 

Carson Dyle

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I've always wondered whether nutritional claims like these take into account the quantity of a food someone is likely to eat. How many pounds of blueberries does one need to eat to get any beneficial amount of all those good letters?

"Over a two year period we fed a group of lab mice two times their body weight of blueberries every day. At the end of that period we found elevated blood levels of blah blah blah blah...."
 

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In our area they have been in season for a number weeks.
There many road side fruit stands and I have been eating about 3/4 pound a day.
We have about 20lbs frozen so far.

Blueberries
are a good source of vitamin K. They also contain vitamin C, fiber, manganese and other antioxidants (notably anthocyanins). Valued for its high levels of antioxidants, The fiber, potassium, folate, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and phytonutrient content in blueberries supports heart health. The absence of cholesterol from blueberries is also beneficial to the heart. Fiber content helps to reduce the total amount of cholesterol in the blood and decrease the risk of heart disease.
Some nutritionists believe that if you make only one change to your diet, it should be to add blueberries.
I agree. They are the sixth best fruit.
 

ultimatebob

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It's Raspberry season where I live right now. I got my wife to make me a Raspberry Custard Pie with the ones growing in my backyard... yum!
 

NAC4EV

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It's Raspberry season where I live right now. I got my wife to make me a Raspberry Custard Pie with the ones growing in my backyard... yum!

Love raspberries
Love blackberries,
They arrived about 1 week before blueberries.
 
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rchunter

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I eat a lot of blueberries too but I have to buy them though. Around here blackberry bushes are everywhere out in the wild but no blueberry.
 

GagHalfrunt

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I eat a ton of fruit in the summer. A lot of them are very good for you and they all taste great. A little fruit an hour before dinner is a great health benefit, you get a lot of good vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants with very few calories, you eat less of the high calorie and fat dinner foods and you feel full and happy. It's the diet that works without feeling like you're dieting, you never get the sense that you're sacrificing the things you love.

That being said, I'm not a big fan of eating raw blueberry although I use them often for baking, which is odd because I'm a pig for most other berries. Love Raspberries, Blackberries and Strawberries. Lately I've been eating a lot of watermelon, cherries and pineapple. All of them are very very good for you, inexpensive at this time of year and delicious.
 

NAC4EV

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We have U pick and picked.
I am a eater, not a picker.
The market gardeners use a harvester that looks like this.


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Red Squirrel

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3/4 pounds a day... that would REALLY mess with my digestion

LOL yeah, I love blueberries, and if I buy a container at the grocery store I tend to end up eating the whole thing in one sitting... and I regret that when it's time to go poop. It's like trying to poop out charcoal that's been mixed with motor oil. It's not that it hurts or anything, it's that I end up spending a good 15-20 minutes wiping and it just never comes clean. The store bought ones seem to be the culprit more than the wild ones though.

I kinda want to try growing some one of these days but not really sure if it's worth the effort, like you probably need a rather large area for a small return. But in an indoor grow setting maybe I could speed up the yield too.
 
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FeuerFrei

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We harvested our fair share back near the beginning of July, also in June. Two visits to the berry farm. Bushes were LOADED on the second visit.

Pterostilbene is one of the best chemicals within blueberries. Think of it as a more potent form of resveratrol. I buy it in supplement form though.
 
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BoomerD

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I have 3 blueberry bushes in pots in the backyard. I picked these on Sunday morning:

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It had been an unusually cool year, so they were late ripening...I still have about as many on the bushes that will be ripe in a couple of weeks.

Blackberries are finally ripening in the area...I snack on a few every morning when I walk the dogs.
 

Herr Kutz

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I made the mistake of buying a carton of blueberries from canada. They are the most bland/tasteless batch of blueberries I’ve ever eaten.
 

Riverhound777

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Still tons of blueberries for sale in CA, Costco has like a 3lb container for $5.99. Trader Joes has the same. I put a few handfuls in some yogurt with some pecans and walnuts, maybe some honey. Great mid-afternoon snack. I will be sad when they are all gone and I have to buy the frozen bags. I actually freeze the fresh ones, but they are 10 times better than the already frozen bags.
 

Red Squirrel

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I made the mistake of buying a carton of blueberries from canada. They are the most bland/tasteless batch of blueberries I’ve ever eaten.

They were probably actually originating from California. They just got bland by the time they came here and back. If you actually come to Canada, and pick them yourself in the woods or buy from a random person selling them on the side of the street they are better than any of the store bought ones. They're not as great this year though, been too hot and not enough rain.
 

BoomerD

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They were probably actually originating from California. They just got bland by the time they came here and back. If you actually come to Canada, and pick them yourself in the woods or buy from a random person selling them on the side of the street they are better than any of the store bought ones. They're not as great this year though, been too hot and not enough rain.

The ones in Caunckistan are grown in the death camps...
 

Zanovar

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Good quality blueberry conserve is delicious.Ive been eating lots of it lately.