CLOUDBERRIES

Cloudberries are called "the gold of the bogs". This kind of berry earlier but to a great extent even nowadays has a great economic value in the mountain tracts of our country. This berry eagerly picked at the end of July and the beginning of August
Botanically it is belonging to "Rosacae" and the place you find them is bogs and peat moss. They are mostly found in the northern parts of Sweden.

Those berries are mostly used for making jam or "mylta", that is mashed fresh cloudberries. But cloudberries also can be used for liqueurs and as filling in varied sweets.
Theses berries are very rich of C-vitamin and benzoic acid which gives them a good lastingness.
Medically people earlier ate them to cure gout and scurvy, and from the leaves they made a tea which is said to be stopping for diarrhoea.

Hot cloudberries with icecream is a dessert we often present our foreign guests, but of course we enjoy this delicacy by ourselves too.

Animals of the forest are eating cloudberries. By that they are spreading the seed. Bears, foxes, some birds and probably small rodent are eating these berries.

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