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- From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] bilberries, anyone?
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:57:45 -0500
Jackie,
I first heard about
bilberries 15 yrs ago when I was in the health food store and a trucker was
buying a bottle of capsules. He said they really helped in winter when the
days were short and the wet roads reflected light. The story is that
pilots are very superstitious people, and that when the British pilots in WWII
ate jam and scones before night flights over Germany, they noted that whoever
ate bilberry jam was likely to make it home. They clamored for more
bilberry jam, someone did some research, and discovered the pilots were
right. Something in European bilberries, (but not in New World bilberries
so far as anyone has been able to figure out) improves night vision in a
different way from vitamin A. Supposedly the Popeye cartoons were partly
disinformation to make the Nazis think it was vitamin A that enabled the British
pilots to outfight their pilots. Donna
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[NAFEX] bilberries, anyone?,
Jacquelyn Kuehn, 07/04/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] bilberries, anyone?, Donna &/or Kieran, 07/06/2007
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