The weather is getting colder – at least for most of us and flue season starts. Time for a some Vitamin C and a healthy snack. It is still time to find some rose hips in the wild. If you do make some of these rose hip vitamin balls – they are not only tasty and a healthy snack when the after noon fatigue sets in but rose hips are a real super food and are rich on Vitamin C.
There are no poisonous rose hips. So basically you can eat all fruits of roses as long as they have not been fertilized. However the little seeds should not be eaten. They have some fine hairs and they could irritate your gums and esophagus.
I won’t lie getting those rose hips ready to make the vitamin balls is a bit of work. But the fragrance you get while working is something else. And they really do taste wonderful. A taste I haven’t had previously.
Here is what you need:
- 1 1/4 cup of oats
- 1/4 cups of seed mixture (mine was linseed, hazelnuts)
- 1/4 cup of almond butter (or any other nut butter)
- 1/4 cup of honey
- 1/4 cup chopped rose hips –alternatively you can use cranberries
Preparations are rather simple. Mix it all well together. The dough should be dry but sticky. Form balls and put them on a backing sheet or plate. Refrigerate for a bit so the nut better solidifies. Store them in an airtight container and snack away. on you Rose Hip Vitamin Balls
Have you ever eaten rose hip? Would you try these vitamin balls? Do you like granola balls? Any other recipe with rose hips you have made or heard of?
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these are so pretty!! I think I will make the cranberry version STAT.
Yes do it. Much easier with cranberries. Let me know how they taste
I haven’t had rose hips since I was a kid in Alaska. Why in Alaska? Who knows. I don’t think I’ve had them since, and I left in 1975. I can almost taste them. These look tasty!
You say ‘as long as they haven’t been fertilized’. Haven’t most rose bushes been fertilized? Would you have to find them in the wild for the rose hips to be edible?
Well, I did pick mine in the wild along a river. But I happen to have some rose hip bush in the garden and we definitely don’t fertilize those. So I could pick them there. Those dog roses or wild roses are very common around here so I guess for me it rather simple to find them. Might not be for every one though.
Alaska. Wow I think you mentioned that before I forgot. How exciting. But than you’ve not been back for a while. I guess lots has changed.
I have no idea if I can find rose hips here – it’s even hard to find rose hip tea (which I always bring back from Germany) but these snack balls sound delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Well, you could use any rose fruit if you have it in the garden just not fertilized. I wonder is there no dog rose or (google suggest) California wild rose anywhere? That should work. But than you could always do the easy version and use cranberries.
These are lovely! I have never eaten a rose hip before but I have heard good things about them.
I haben really either besides tea but they taste surprisingly good. Just the seeds are bit of a hinderance.
Those Look delicious!
And they are.
Oh, I don’t think I’ve ever had rose hips! I love the scent of rose but don’t typically like rosewater as a flavor, so I wonder if I wouldn’t like it? But I may try these with cranberries — yum!
I don’t like rose water at all this is a different fragrance. They are yummy but using cranberries will be much less effort.