Berries

🇸🇾Aleppo, Syria

Aleppo Sour Cherries

كرز

Small sour morello cherries from the hills around Aleppo, the basis of the city's cherry kebab.

🇮🇷Iran

Barberries

زرشک

Small, intensely sour dried red berries from South Khorasan, fried briefly in butter and sugar and scattered over rice.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Bilberries

Šilauogės

Wild forest bilberries used in Lithuanian pies, dumplings and preserves.

🇨🇱Chile

Chilean Guava

Murtilla

Murtilla is a small native Chilean berry with tart, aromatic flavor, eaten fresh or made into preserves, syrups, and desserts.

🇨🇱Chile

Chilean Strawberry

Frutilla

Chilean strawberry, particularly the native Fragaria chiloensis, smaller and more flavorful than commercial varieties.

🇬🇱Greenland

Cloudberry

Aqisseq Paarnaa

Cloudberries; a prized Arctic berry found in southern Greenland; amber-colored and tart; used in desserts, jams, and beverages; a summer harvest; a delicacy that features in Nordic and Greenlandic cuisine.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Cranberries

Spanguolės

Wild cranberries from Lithuanian bogs, used in kissel, sauces and preserves.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Karaka Berries

Bright orange berries of the native karaka tree; the flesh is edible but the kernel is toxic until detoxified by prolonged boiling, steaming and soaking — prepared in hapū-specific ways and stored for winter.

🇨🇱Chile

Maqui Berry

Maqui

Native purple berry with extremely high antioxidant content, tart and dark, a Chilean superfood, traditional and wild.

🇨🇴Colombia

Mora

Colombian blackberry (mora de Castilla), a tart, deep-red berry used in juices, jams, and desserts. A staple of the Andean highlands, served fresh or juiced.

🇦🇺Australia

Muntries

Native Cranberry

Muntries are small southern Australian berries with a crisp apple-like bite and spicy flavour, eaten fresh, dried, or preserved.

🇫🇮Finland

Sea Buckthorn

Tyrni

Orange berry rich in vitamin C, grows on coasts, tart and aromatic, used in juices, jams, and desserts.