The method developed for flavonoid analysis, based on reversed phase HPLC-UV/MS, and extraction procedures were optimized for the berry and pulse matrices, and used to characterize the flavonoids in four Swedish berry species and polyphenols in eight Swedish pulse species (raw and cooked). The nutritional benefits of lingonberries, brown beans, and their polyphenol and fiber fractions, were then investigated in an Apoe -/- mouse model.
The methods were used for characterization of polyphenols in Swedish berries and pulses. In this thesis, methods for quantification of flavonoids in berry and pulse matrices were developed. These nutritional benefits are often attributed to high content of polyphenols (flavonoids and phenolic acids) and dietary fiber. The students and teachers then get to eat the jam that they have made themselves during the school year.2021 (English) Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) Abstract Ĭonsumption of berries and pulses can protect against atherosclerosis and other metabolic diseases, by modulating plasma lipid profile, gut microbiota, and microbiota-dependent metabolites. Some schools have as a yearly tradition that their students go and pick Lingon berries that they then get as homework to clean and then bring back to school for the kitchen staff to make jam out of. Lingon berry jam is a very commonly used jam in Sweden, used with meat, potatoes, in porridge or on pancakes, substituting accompaniments like ketchup, salsa and even sweet jams.Įven school time is designated to berry picking. A lot of weekends in the fall are spent sorting and cleaning berries carefully making jam (sylt), freezing or drying mushrooms and making late night sandwiches with sautéed mushrooms on top. Once the berries and mushrooms have been picked they have to be taken care of.
Shortly said people can get very territorial about their favorite picking spots. If you are just walking past a berry picker you can very easily be given suspicious looks, just because the people are worried about you picking what they see as “their” berries. A good berry or mushroom spot is seen as a gold mine, and thus treasured as one. These spots have to be kept secret so that nobody come and picks them clean. When it comes to good spots people have their own that they most likely have used for years. Mushrooms (Svamp) are also a serious business. After that, mostly all through September and some of October, Lingon berries are picked. Right after the summer (the first weeks of August) people pick blueberries. Different months have different berries to pick.
In the areas where there are a lot of berries (bär), it is a yearly ritual to go out and pick tens of liters of blueberries (blåbär) or Lingon berries (Lingonbär). If there is a bear (Björn) in a certain area word will get around pretty quickly about it.
Often during those long walks (a least in the north of Sweden) people can spot wild bears or elk/ moose (Älg ). Looking for mushrooms, picking berries or just to be surrounded by beautiful leaves. In the fall in Sweden a lot of people love to take long walk out in the forest (skog).
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