You know about the superfood properties of blueberries and raspberries. Well, it’s time to meet the haskap berry. A blue honeysuckle, native to the low-lying wet regions of northern hemisphere ...

Side effects due to lung cancer treatments are also very severe. Haskap may be the answer. A berry crop that's new to Canada, Haskap is extremely rich in dietary antioxidants such as flavonoids.

It does not replicate from underground suckers, nor are they any new plants from seed. Haskap berries are, indeed, irregularly shaped, often oblong, but do look like blueberries, with the same ...

A ripe haskap berry resembles an oversize, oblong blueberry, and it tastes like a blueberry-raspberry hybrid. The skin is delicate, the flesh juicy, and the antioxidant level high. Most of the ...

Some people take up new projects in retirement. Golfing, say, or restoring old cars. But for plant breeder Maxine Thompson, retirement from her position as a professor of horticulture at Oregon ...

Haskap berries are packed with antioxidants and have almost 130 times the amount of anthocyanin, an antioxidant that reduces inflammation and protects against a range of health conditions ...

Imagine a grape/raspberry/blueberry or a raspberry/blueberry/black currant mashed together, with two to three times the antioxidants of blueberries You can save this article by registering for ...

In 2011, the couple bought the farm, located just east of Sudbury, and decided to produce something new and different: haskap berries. Melien describes them as "great" little berries that look ...

The Haskap berry, well-known in Japan, has travelled across the world to make its presence known in Nova Scotia. Known to have three times the antioxidants of a blueberry and twice the vitamin C ...

Vasantha Rupasinghe, Canada Research Chair in Fruit Bioactives and BioProducts, and his team have begun a new research initiative to investigate the disease fighting power of the newest cool climate ...