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Posted by Stephanie Rogers on June 19, 2015 in News, Research

Dr. Vasantha Rupasinghe and his research on Haskap berries was recently featured in an issue of The Canadian Grocer.

Your next superfruit: the haskap berry?
Higher production and new products could turn haskap from a high-end food to a household staple

From being a weapon in the war against cancer to oozing powerful antioxidants, a lot of hype is getting squeezed out of the tiny haskap berry.

But is this elongated blue berry, grown in Canada and dubbed the next big superfruit, a passing fad? Or does it have the juice to go mainstream?

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