The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
Also called bramen.
In the Netherlands, blackberries are in season July to October, at their best in August and September. November is outside the Dutch season for blackberries.
Cultivated blackberries fruit from July to October; wild ones along Dutch hedges ripen in August and September.
Plump and fully black. Red drupelets mean underripe.
Fibre, vitamin C, vitamin K, manganese and anthocyanins.
To get the most: Raw and soon after picking. Seeds carry some of the fibre and omega-3, so no need to sieve them out.
On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of blackberries (145 g) gives about a third of a day's vitamin C and about a third of a day's vitamin K, counting what your body absorbs. That puts them in the top 25% of the 244 foods we scored.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Eat fresh, or cook briefly with apple for a crumble.
17 producers in The Field Guide sell blackberries, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 163 growers passed our bar for this food group; we have not yet recorded what each of them grows, so ask them or search the map.
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