Sea buckthorn

Hippophae rhamnoides

fruit

Small, bright orange, very sour berries packed onto the thorny twigs of a shrub from the temperate zones of Europe and Asia; male and female plants are separate. As juice, syrup or jam. They provide vitamin C, vitamin E and beta-carotene.

Origin

Europe and temperate Asia

Season (United States)

August to October

Preparation

The berries are eaten with their small seed, but are hard to pick: the branches are cut and frozen, and the berries then come off all at once.

Molecules

Beta-carotene (vitamin A) · Beta-cryptoxanthin · Vitamin C · Vitamin EIn small amounts, not counted Lycopene

Did you know?

Its Latin name, Hippophae, comes from the Greek for “horse” and “light”: the ancient Greeks fed its leaves to their horses to make their coats shine.