Could be. Here I sometimes see canned "forest blueberries" with fruits advertised as from Canada that seem to be the same berry, at least as far as you can tell from preserved ones. Do maybe they also freeze them in North America. They are smaller and dark blue throughout, including the flesh, rather than that being light as with the larger cultivated American blueberry, which aside from the often more intense taste is really the main difference. If you eat them fresh in milk or cream they stain that very violet if you squish them.
When I was little they used to be easier to buy fresh, at least my mom just got them from the grocery store, not some farmer's market or anything. But then Chernobyl happened and they were all contaminated for a while or something, and I think just like wild mushrooms it never fully recovered. I don't remember having them regularly anymore as an older teenager. (That may also be why the glasses with the canned ones put "Canada" so visible on their label, so that people don't worry they might get stuff from radioactive forests just because they are called "forest" blueberry to set them apart.)
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Date: 2022-04-26 10:06 pm (UTC)When I was little they used to be easier to buy fresh, at least my mom just got them from the grocery store, not some farmer's market or anything. But then Chernobyl happened and they were all contaminated for a while or something, and I think just like wild mushrooms it never fully recovered. I don't remember having them regularly anymore as an older teenager. (That may also be why the glasses with the canned ones put "Canada" so visible on their label, so that people don't worry they might get stuff from radioactive forests just because they are called "forest" blueberry to set them apart.)