Four dried fruits in one bag: wild blueberry, wild blackberry, wild strawberry and raspberry, all grown or gathered at the foot of the Dinaric Alps, dried whole and lightly sweetened with apple juice. No sulphites, no added sucrose, no oil coating.
What is in it
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Wild blueberry — Vaccinium myrtillus, the European bilberry. Not the same plant as the cultivated highbush blueberry: it is purple all the way through rather than green-fleshed, which is why it stains so thoroughly.
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Wild blackberry — Rubus fruticosus, the hedgerow bramble. Small, dark and sharper than the cultivated kind.
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Wild strawberry — the woodland fraise des bois, Fragaria vesca. Tiny, and disproportionately fragrant for its size.
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Raspberry — Rubus idaeus, the most acidic and most perfumed of the four.
A word about the word "superfruit"
"Superfruit" is a marketing term, not a scientific or regulatory one. No European authority defines it and no health claim attaches to it. What is true is more ordinary and more useful: these are whole fruits, dried, with a short ingredient list, and they taste of themselves. That is the reason to buy them. If a product's main argument is the word "super", be sceptical — including here.
Why a mix rather than one fruit
The four have genuinely different characters and they balance each other. Blueberry is the sweetest and softest, raspberry the sourest and most aromatic, blackberry the deepest and most tannic, wild strawberry the most perfumed. Eaten together you get a sequence rather than a single note — which is the whole point of the blend, and why it works better scattered over something plain than eaten by the handful.
An honest word about "sweetened with apple juice"
Apple juice concentrate is sugar: fructose and glucose. It keeps the ingredient list short and the flavour fruit-led, but it does not make dried fruit a low-sugar food. Drying concentrates the fruit's own sugars too. Treat this as fruit, eaten in handfuls, not as a health supplement.
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