To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Question
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:43:08 -0600
As I posted once in the past, Trader Joe's uses Aronia in its cherry
juice, which actually makes the juice not cherry colored, but kind of
a brownish color. A national product like that, must use a lot
product.
~mIEKAL
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Kieran &/or Donna
<holycow@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> I think the main uses of Aronia in Europe have been for natural colorings
> and in wines, esp apple wines. I think that what will happen is that as the
> amount of the crop goes up, there will be more uses for it. If it should
> reach a point where there is more Aronia fruit available than demand, that
> the growers will sponsor research to find more uses. That's what happened
> with shiitake mushrooms in Japan. Donna