Dr. Vasantha Rupasinghe and his research on Haskap berries was recently featured in an issue of The Canadian Grocer.
Your next superfruit: the haskap berry?
Higher production and new products could turn haskap from a high-end food to a household staple
From being a weapon in the war against cancer to oozing powerful antioxidants, a lot of hype is getting squeezed out of the tiny haskap berry.
But is this elongated blue berry, grown in Canada and dubbed the next big superfruit, a passing fad? Or does it have the juice to go mainstream?
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