Wild Blueberries in the News

  • November 28, 2023

    These super-fruit blueberry recipes are definitely drool-worthy

    Breakfast Television

    Meredith is joined by chef Bob Blumer to explore the benefits of the super fruit — blueberries!

  • August 23, 2023

    What’s For Dinner: Blueberry, Chicken and Avocado Grilled Cheese

    Atlantic CTV

  • August 3, 2023

    20 Tasty Ways to Celebrate Wild Blueberry Season

    readersdigest.ca

    If you’re only enjoying blueberries in your morning smoothie, you’ve been missing out. The sweet, tart superfruit plays a starring role in these inspired recipes from the Wild Blueberry Association of North America.

  • August 3, 2023

    A recipe from the new cookbook, “Prairie”

    atlantic.ctvnews.ca

    Food writer Dan Clapson joined the CML Kitchen to share the details on his debut cookbook and prepared a tasty dish!

  • August 2, 2023

    How to elevate these classic summer dishes with blueberries

    breakfasttelevision.ca

    Sid is joined by ChefD, Darryl Fletcher to learn how to make various recipes with blueberries!

  • August 1, 2023

    CTV Morning – Cedar plank salmon on the BBQ

    CTV Your Morning

    Maple-glazed cedar-plank salmon with wild blueberry salsa prepared by Chef Bob Blumer on CTV Morning.

  • July 8, 2023

    Cooking up the perfect pancakes with Eat North

    Global News

    Eat North food writer Dan Clapson joins Global News Calgary with some tips and tricks on serving up the perfect pancakes for your Stampede breakfast.

     

  • June 30, 2023

    10 nutritious, homegrown foods to eat this Canada Day

    The Globe and Mail

    This summer, whether you’re hosting a backyard barbecue, having a picnic or dining on a restaurant patio, put Canada on your menu with these nutritious locally grown and produced foods.

     

    While many ingredients are available throughout the country, each region produces its own unique local foods. Read this Globe and Mail article of Canada’s foods to celebrate and savour from coast to coast to coast.

     

    Quebec

    While poutine, Montreal-style bagels and Oka cheese come to mind, today I’m thanking Quebec for its wild (lowbush) blueberries, a treat I look forward to every July. (Wild blueberries are also grown in the Atlantic provinces.)

     

    Smaller and sweeter-tasting than cultivated highbush blueberries, wild blueberries are loaded with anthocyanins, antioxidants highly concentrated in the berry’s skin which are thought to guard against cardiovascular disease and bolster brain health.

     

    Wild blueberries contain more antioxidants than their cultivated cousins because, pound for pound, they contain more skin.

     

     

  • June 28, 2023

    Quick and easy options for the perfect summer BBQ get-together

    CHCH TV

    Looking for outdoor hosting ideas this summer? This week on CHCH TVPay Chen walks us through quick and easy options for the perfect summer get-together using Canadian #wildblueberries! Serve this frozen super-berry in June for Brain Health Awareness Month and year-round for a delicious and healthy treat!

  • February 18, 2020

    A few reasons why wild blueberries may improve heart health

    The Siren Group Inc

     

    Vow to take care of your ticker this February

    For many, February is a time to celebrate love and relationships, but it’s also a time to focus on cardiovascular health in honor of Heart Health Month. This February focus on improving your heart health by adding nutritious wild blueberries into your daily diet. These nutrient dense, tiny berries promote better cardiovascular health by being a low glycemic index fruit, improving cardiovascular function, and having natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Take a few minutes to honor the organ that powers you and learn why eating a healthy 1/2 cup scoop of wild blueberries everyday may help prevent heart disease.

    Consultant to the Wild Blueberry Association of North AmericaWilhelmina Kalt, Ph.D. is available to share her knowledge and research on the health benefits of wild blueberries.  Dr. Kalt has studied the horticultural and food factors that influence fruit bioactive content.  In more recent animal and human studies she has characterized how bioactive pigments, which are abundant in wild blueberries, are absorbed by the body.  She has collaborated in clinical studies in various fields of biomedicine to examine the effects of wild blueberries in a free-living human population.

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    For more information, recipes, visuals or to schedule an interview or in-studio segment with Wilhelmina Kalt, please contact Ruth Colapinto or Susan Willemsen at The Siren Group Inc.

    Tel: 416-461-5270. E-mail: ruth@thesirengroup.com or susan@thesirengoup.com.

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