The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
Also called blauwe bessen, bosbessen.
In the Netherlands, blueberries are in season July to September, at their best in July and August. November is outside the Dutch season for blueberries.
Dutch blueberries ripen from July to September, mostly on the sandy soils of Limburg and Brabant. Several farms let you pick.
A dusty bloom on the skin and no shrivelling at the stem end.
Anthocyanins in the skin, vitamin C, vitamin K and manganese.
To get the most: Eat them whole and raw, skin included; the pigments are in the skin. Frozen blueberries keep their anthocyanins well.
On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of blueberries (125 g) gives about a fifth of a day's vitamin K and about a tenth of a day's vitamin C, counting what your body absorbs.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
They keep a week in the fridge and freeze without fuss.
5 producers in The Field Guide sell blueberries, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 173 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.
Open on the map →35 farms in the guide open their fields for picking. Opening days follow the ripening, so check the farm's own page or social media the week you want to go.
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