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  2. 30 Different Types of Berries (and Why You Should Be Eating ...

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    Scientific name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea Taste: Sour, slightly sweet Health benefits: Like most berries, lingonberries are high in antioxidants, flavonoids and anti-inflammatory agents.

  3. Vaccinium vitis-idaea - Wikipedia

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    Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family, Ericaceae. It is known colloquially as the lingonberry , partridgeberry , [ a ] foxberry , mountain cranberry , or cowberry . It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

  4. Vaccinium - Wikipedia

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    Vaccinium / v æ k ˈ s ɪ n i ə m / [3] is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry.

  5. Berry (botany) - Wikipedia

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    In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons and bananas, but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries, such as strawberries and raspberries.

  6. Whortleberry - Wikipedia

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    Whortleberry may refer to the berries of several plants of genus Vaccinium: Vaccinium myrtillus, European bilberry or blue whortleberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea, lingonberry or red whortleberry; Vaccinium uliginosum, bog whortleberry/bilberry

  7. Should You Eat Acai Berries? Here Are the Health Benefits - AOL

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    Acai berries are known for their striking deep purple hue. Here’s everything you need to know about the nutrient-dense fruit, including acai berry benefits, nutrition facts, risks, and acai ...

  8. Should You Eat Goji Berries? What to Know About Their ... - AOL

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    In fact, there are probably eight benefits of goji berries you don’t know about. “Goji berries are especially high in vitamin C,” says Rasmussen. Vitamin C, an antioxidant, is used by the ...

  9. Bilberry - Wikipedia

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    The name "bilberry" appears to have a Scandinavian origin, possibly from as early as 1577, being similar to the Danish word bølle for whortleberry with the addition of "berry". [1] In Scandinavian languages, terms for bilberries have names that carry the meaning "blueberry": e.g. blåbär in Swedish and blåbær in Danish and Norwegian.