Bilberry is a perennial shrub, reddish purple in color and native to Northern Europe and North America. Bilberries are high in substances called flavonoids, which are found in many fruits and vegetables and are particularly abundant in citrus fruits and berries. Bilberry flavonoids are associated with good vision and eye function.
Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) is a short, shrubby perennial plant that inhabits the woods and forest meadows of Europe, western Asia, and the Rocky Mountains of North America. As with many other plants that belong to the same plant family (Vaccinium), bilberry bears edible fruits similar to those found on the American blueberry bush. Cranberries and huckleberry belong to this plant family too.
The bilberry’s blue-black berry, which is creamy white inside, has been valued as a food since prehistoric times. Commonly referred to as “European blueberry,” it is famed as a filling for pies, and for use in cobblers, jams, and other recipes.
The easiest way to distinguish the bilberry is that it produces single or pairs of berries on the bush instead of clusters like the blueberry. Another way to distinguish them is that while blueberry fruit meat is light green, bilberry is red or purple. In this way you can also distinguish the bilberry eater from the blueberry eater by his red fingers and lips.
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