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  • From: "Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" <parmarch@sancharnet.in>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.)
  • Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:40:14 +0530

Sea Buckthorn is being promoted by a select group of people in India too. It is said to be overloaded with qualities and a couple of companies have made money too by marketing a drink made from its pulp. This plant grows wild in dry temperate zones of India ( Lahaul Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh district of Kashmir). A company in India had named its drink as Leh Berry.

But I do not think that it has a future. The plant is growing in its habitat since ages and Lahaul and Spiti, which is a sort of cold desert with scan vegetation, the local people do not use the fruit. They use the wood only as firewood.

There was, of course, a project on seabuckthorn at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, at Balsgard, on it. The project was funded by industry who wanted to use the pulp of this fruit as a coloring agent for fruit products. The Swedish people wanted to replace the chemical food colours with natural colours. This was around 1989 and they were trying 4-5 fruits alongwith seas buckthorn for this purpose. I was also associated with this project for a few months as a guest scientist.

I do not think that sea buckthorn will ever be able to get estbalsished as commercial fruit crop like blueberry.

Very truly yours,

Dr.Chiranjit Parmar
Horticultural Consultant of Lesser Known Indian Fruits
www.lesserknownindianplants.com


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 7:32 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.)


I keep seeing articles about Sea Buckthorn and the latest comes from the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture suggesting that farmers plant it. Every
article I have read about it extols the virtues of the fruit but NOBODY has
yet said that it tastes good. Makes me wonder if it tastes awful. Does it
make a tasty jelly? Does anyone know?
--

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN
www.bberryfarm.com
Jams, Jellies and Syrups



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