A whole range of berries, once seasonal, are now more readily available throughout the whole year. Of course, the fresher the fruit one eats is better, but other options to eating fresh fruit are items like berry juice, frozen berries and concentrated berry jams and syrups.
Each option provides the essential nutrients that only berries can deliver. Most of the existing range of berries having been available for centuries. There are raspberries, loganberries, elderberries, gooseberries, cape gooseberries, blueberries, cranberries, blackberries and strawberries. Then there are herbal therapeutic berries, like Hawthorn Berries and Goji berries. The deeper the red colour, the sweeter they are and higher in antioxidant properties, More information in the main article.