Fake blueberries abound in food products

slate.com ^ | January 20, 2011 | Shari Roan

[bunkerhill7]

went bucket berryin` last year on Hogback,

but the bears got there first,

ate all the blueberries

[AGreatPer]

"that we keep a couple of bags in the freezer"

Dummy here. They are plentiful on the farm next door.
Nobody ever told me you could freeze them.

This is my neighbor:
stritesorchard.com

[Ezekiel]

It used to be that processed food was bad "merely" because it was stripped of nutrients. Now it's brazenly stripped of food.

If the word "marriage" can be redefined such that it retains no objective meaning, then nothing is immune from attack. Clinton's "is" hydra lives on. Otherwise how does one explain "fat-free half and half"?

Last year sometime I was looking at a container of ice cream and saw on the label what appeared to be an ingredient list (it was formatted to look like one). It said something along the lines of, "Contains: cream, milk, sugar, vanilla....". Looks so wholesome, natural, real.

However, in small print below this list it stated that the FULL ingredient list was located somewhere else (on the back panel IIRC). I mean WTH? Two ingredient lists? I had never seen that. It's one thing to highlight a particular ingredient or nutrient or so-called health benefit, but to plant a faux ingedient list?! So now you have to beware of abridged ingredient lists.

What with all the shrinking product sizes, where do they find the space?

A red flag is the word "real". "Made with real [insert ostensibly real food]". Depends what their definition of "real" is.

Lies are the coin of the realm. If the ingredients are an obvious lie, what about the safety and long-term effects of ingesting these products? Do. Not. Want.

[Texas Fossil]

Good pic. I love blueberries and like to bake. Good combination.

I ordered 28 new fruit trees for the family orchard on Monday and 4 southern highbush blueberry plants. Will have to doctor the soil here to get blueberries to grow, they require slightly acid soil and ours is alkali. Will peatmoss mulch the beds and add sulfur slowly.

I like fruit. We had a great plum crop this year and the persimmon crop was about the best I remember. Made lots of jelly and froze plum juice to make more later.

Ate my fill of ripe persimmons, froze ripe persimmon pulp and dried quite a few for the first time.

It will take a couple of years to get the new trees established, but I look forward to more selection after that.

That won’t be dependent on General Mills.

[Daffynition]

Reminds me of the great kiddie lit book *Blueberries for Sal*

[Texas Fossil]

Another great pic, good thing I have already had supper. hee hee hee

[Daffynition]

[bunkerhill7]

Yes, we kids went into the berry patch

bangin` our buckets with big metal spoons

to scare away the bears.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

A steady diet of these have kept me happy, healthy and REALLY, REALLY hyper & productive for DECADES, LOL!

[Spudx7]

Love their frozen blueberries. My 9-yr old son checks for it everytime he helps put groceries away!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

My Aunt Joanne lives in AK. In the foyer of her house is a HUGE stuffed bear (Black, Brown, Kodiak? I dunno...I’ve only seen pictures...) that she had to shoot while blueberry picking.

She didn’t WANT to do it, but it was him or her. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Blueberries for Sal’! A classic! :)

[Celtic Cross]

[nhwingut]

[wideminded]

LOL.

[Daffynition]

I've picked low-bush blueberries in Alaska and the pure pleasure of the activity was marred by the ever present fear of having ursa-major-company over the next knoll.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

Love your Aunt Joanne v bear story! She’s my kinda gal. :D

[Daffynition]

Hannaford's makes a wonderful pancake syrup...

[Daffynition]

It is no longer about telling the whole truth. It is about telling just enough to stay out of jail.

"Real blueberries are expensive; faking them is cheap, says Amy Kuras at The Stir.