Wild Fruits

Clearly, no-one goes into the forest to pick berries to produce 30 truckloads worth of juice concentrate.

Many wile fruits grow naturally in forests and the edges of fields. While wild fruit plants for processing are cultivated on a larger scale, their character and properties remain very original and prototypical — exactly the way our ancestors ate them. That means that the plants were not crossbred or cultivated to manipulate their traits, like for example the standardised “euro-apple” grown in intensive cultivation.

So look out: if you find a topinambur plant by the wayside, spreading its beautiful yellow flowers — it’s probably done that there for many years already.