It’s the summer blues season, and it is the perfect time to enjoy nature’s bountiful blueberry harvest in full swing. Prime blueberry season runs from mid June to mid August. In fact, New England hiking enthusiasts may happen to find a patch of smaller, wild blueberries on their off trail hiking treks.
Blueberries are a nutritional bonanza of health enhancing compounds ranging from antioxidants, anthocyanins, ellagic acid, to phenolic acids. Researchers at Tufts University recently conducted an analysis of 60 fruits and vegetables, and rated the brightly colored blueberry with the highest antioxidant capacity to destroy free radicals.
Concerned about health issues such as looking and feeling younger? The oxygen radical absorption capacity (ORAC), a new laboratory test developed exclusively by USDA researchers at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, rated the blueberry per 100 grams as having a whopping 2,400 point value.
In layman’s terms, that means that blueberries has one of the highest antioxidant capability to fight the oxidative stresses of everyday exposures to air pollutants, unhealthy food and drink, excessive sun exposure, and man made chemicals that are implicated in everything from wrinkling and aging of skin to diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and others.
This oxidative stress that occurs to our bodies is under a constant, daily assault and can be compared to what happens to a piece of iron when left outside in the rain. This build up of rust that accumulates will gradually weaken, and eventually break down, the physical body making it vulnerable to developing diseases.
To help fight this damage naturally, one needs to give serious thought to eating, at least, 9 servings a day of fresh fruits and vegetables. Eating a handful of blueberries, along with a wide variety of other fresh plant food sources every day, helps enable people to lead physically healthier lives.
The health enhancing effects of eating blueberries have been well documented for several years now, in being able to help protect against the development of degenerative health conditions like cardiovascular diseases, macular degeneration, brain illnesses, gastrointestinal health problems, and cancer.
With so many different substances found in blueberries, researchers aren’t sure which ones have the most important health benefits. One thing they all pretty much agree on is, that eating the whole fruit is much better for your health than using certain extracts of the berry alone.
So, whether you pick them up at your local produce section at your favorite market, locally cultivated and grown, or find them growing wild, definitely select the deepest, darkest blue colored skin on the berries. They will also be covered in a light chalky white residue, this is normal.
If you wish to store your best find, rather than eat them right away, do not wash them before refrigeration. They will keep relatively well, unwashed, in the fridge for 7 to 10 days. Before eating them, stem and sort out the shriveled or moldy berries and wash.
Interested in long-term storage, by enjoying them through the winter? Blueberries freeze particularly well, due to their low water content, and will keep in the freezer for up to a year. They also retain much of their nutritional content when frozen. Simply lay a single layer of unwashed, dry blueberries out on a cookie sheet and freeze. Washing them before freezing will compromise the texture and toughen the skins. Transfer the frozen berries into dry pack freezer bags or cartons. Take out what you will be using, wash, and incorporate them into your favorite recipes.
With one of the lowest calorie content found anywhere in a fruit, at about 80 calories per cup, eating them liberally is not going to pack on the pounds. The sweet, luscious blueberry has a nutritional health profile fit for any health conscious dieter. A one cup serving of this fresh fruit also provides 5 grams of fiber and gives you you 15 percent of your daily intake value of vitamin C.
Blueberries are easily voted, no hands down, one of the the healthiest fruits in North America, with one of the highest antioxidant content of any known fruit. I don’t know about you, but this all sounds pretty good to me. I think I’ll through a pint of blueberries in my shopping cart tomorrow. Besides being so good for you, they are also quite pleasant to eat.
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What are these things on my blueberry bush?I've got a large, healthy blueberry bush until now it seems. I've got these gray things here and there on the bush. They look like seed pods or something…..sort of like an overgrown kidney bean but gray. Some of them have little holes in them. I can't tell if they are surrounding a blueberry or not. I first noticed them last year but there were only a few and I ignored. This year there are substantially more. I'm concerned but I can't seem to find a match to what these things are when I search around the internet. Any thoughts?
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Depends upon whether you want a high-bush or low-bush blueberry, Vaccinium. My favorite is the Top hat blueberry and it is a low bush…only gets 18-24 inches tall and it can really put out the blueberries. If you are interested in container blueberries the Top Hat is a real winner: http://www.naturehills.com/product/top_hat_blueberry.aspx.
For a high-bush plant that is very sweet and great producer try Duke, it produces a large sweet berry. http://www.naturehills.com/product/duke_blueberry.aspx
The ingredients for many baked items are very similar. Blueberry muffins, blueberry scones, blueberry coffeecake, blueberry pancakes, etc. will all have flour, baking powder and/or baking soda, sugar, salt, and a combination of different liquids such as oil, milk, cream, sour cream, buttermilk, etc. It's the amount of each of these ingredients that determines the texture, denseness and mouth-feel of the baked product.
So to answer your question, yes, you can probably use a blueberry muffin mix to make a cake, however, you will need to find a recipe for some kind of a blueberry cake to see what might be missing from the muffin mix that would be needed to make it into a cake mix.
The only other suggestion I have is to maybe find a blueberry pound cake box mix, and make cupcakes out of it. I'm sure your daughter would love this just as much. Happy birthday to the little one!
dingleberries ????
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Mash your banana and add that and the blueberries into the wet mix, cook as you would any other way. I make these all the time, they're awesome
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This recipe was given to me by my mom. I have taken it to many potlucks and always leave with an empty pan.
Blueberry Delight
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 (21 ounce) can blueberry pie filling
1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
Combine first 3 ingredients; add butter, stirring well.
Press into a greased oblong pan.
Beat cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.
Add 1 c.
sugar, eggs, and lemon juice, mixing until smooth.
Spread over crust.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until set; cool completely.
Spread pie filling over cream cheese mixture; spread whipped topping over filling.
Cover and chill several hours.
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Use more cornstarch.
Jams are made from crushed or ground, whole fruit and usually have a thick consistency due to high pectin content.
Conserves are jams made from a mixture of fruits. They usually contain citrus fruit, nuts, and raisins.
BLUEBERRY BREAD
1 pkg yeast
3 cups bread flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
4 tsp applesauce, unsweetened
16 oz. frozen blueberries, thawed and drained (reserve liquid)
1/4 cup reserved juice
1/4 cup water (90F degrees)
Add ingredients in order listed or as recommended in your user manual.
Put berries in with dry ingredients or when machine beeps or first kneading cycle has completed.
SOUPER STRATA SALAD
1 (11 oz.) can condensed tomato bisque soup
1/2 c. vinegar
1/2 c. salad oil
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. Dijon style mustard
1 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 med. head torn lettuce (6 c.)
2 (6 3/4 oz.) cans chunk style ham, drained and flaked (or use chicken or turkey)
1 (4 oz.) pkg. shredded Mozzarella cheese
1 (4 1/2 oz.) jar sliced mushrooms, drained
2 c. croutons
In a screw top jar, combine tomato bisque soup, vinegar, salad oil, sugar, Dijon style mustard and Worcestershire sauce. Cover jar and shake well.
In large salad bowl layer half of the lettuce, half of the ham, half of cheese, half of mushrooms and half of croutons. Repeat layers. Drizzle some soup mixture atop salad and toss. Pass remaining soup mixture. 6 servings.
SOUPER SALAD BROCCOLI CHEESE SOUP
1 qt. water
1 sm. onion, chopped
1 box chopped broccoli (or 1 lb. fresh)
1 oz. consomme or beef bouillon base (dry)
1 1/2 sticks butter
1 1/2 c. flour
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. white pepper
Seasoning salt to taste
Cayenne pepper to taste
2 lbs. Cheddar and or American cheese, cubed
1 qt. milk
1/8 can beer
Hope this helps!!
Oh…I like Janis' answer! You may also try ground flax seed one time to see how it tastes.