Haskap
Lonicera caerulea · Berry
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Haskap — also called honeyberry, blue honeysuckle or, in Japan, haskappu — is the elongated, deep blue-violet fruit of the edible honeysuckle Lonicera caerulea, a cold-hardy shrub of the boreal north. Tart-sweet with a flavour often likened to a cross of blueberry, raspberry and blackcurrant, it ripens earlier than almost any other temperate fruit and is eaten fresh, frozen, or made into jam, juice and wine.
Picking a good onedrag
Deep blue, plump, purple throughWeeping or fermenting
Full blue, soft-fleshedEveryday bestThe ordinary good punnet — haskap is soft by nature, not by age. Eat it raw, spread it on a tray to freeze, or cook it down with sugar into jam.
SkinBlue and full, bloom rubbed thin where fruit touched
Squash oneSofter, still whole; the juice a shade lighter but clear
Stem endScars dry, a few loose stalks and leaves in the box
SmellAlmost nothing — a quiet berry, and that is normal
What you get from one
100%
Edible part
About 1.7 g a berry, the middle of a published 1.3-2.2 g range. All of it is the edible portion — thin skin, purple-red flesh and the many tiny soft seeds are eaten together — so there is nothing to subtract.
1.7 g
Weight each
each one