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  • Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca
    Oct 31, 2026, 10:17 PM

    @sundogplanets for anyone like me who was not familiar with this feature of rose hips: It's the hairs inside the fruit that are itchy, and stay that way all the way through you, apparently.

    So if you're ever in a survival situation, yes, rosehips can be eaten, if you carefully avoid the hairs! But for most uses you want to cook & strain to make tea, jelly, or a Swedish dessert soup (why hasn't IKEA spread this to the world yet?).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_hip

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  • NilaJonesNilaJones@zeroes.ca
    Oct 31, 2026, 10:29 PM

    @AmeliasBrain @sundogplanets

    I eat them raw by careful nibbling off only the outside, and avoiding the furry center. So much like an artichoke! Easier to do with nice large rose hips like on a rugosa rose

    I also make syrup from them. I tried making jelly one time with that no sugar pectin, but I guess I didn't do it right, because I ended up with a bunch of amoeba shaped gummy bears, in syrup. The gummy bears were tasty, and I canned the syrup, but I haven't tried jelly since

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  • Eugene Parnelleugeneparnell@mstdn.social
    Nov 1, 2026, 4:16 AM

    @AmeliasBrain @sundogplanets This is the first I've heard of the itchy factor-- thank you for the explanation. And for anyone who doesn't know, roses and apples and closely related. If you look carefully at a rose hip it looks like a tiny crabapple. And if you look at the bottom of an apple you see the same 4 sepals (leaf like things) that you do on a rose hip.

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