Scientists are working to boost the vitamin C content of blackcurrants in a move that would be a major benefit to consumers and farmers. Researchers have tracked the production and storage of vitamin ...

There's a reason many Americans are unfamiliar with blackcurrant and have never seen a blackcurrant bush: Until recently it was illegal to grow blackcurrant in the United States. It remains illegal in ...

A Definitely. Blackcurrant fruit on the second year’s wood. Prune the bushes after the leaves have fallen, take out one third of the old wood to ground level, check for big bud mite and blackcurrant ...

FEW FRUITS carry more health-promoting antioxidants than blackcurrants. Widely grown in cooler parts of Europe, they are in high demand from consumers seeking pesticide-free juices made from the ...

This week, Central New York gardening writer Carol T. Bradford responds to a reader question. Dear Carol: I have a question about jostaberries. I've two bushes that are up pretty good. Nice and green ...

Blackcurrants are popular in Europe but are mostly unknown here still. It feels like a strange history that this fruit was banned in America. Few folks in the United States have ever tasted one, ...

Normally the Herefordshire blackcurrant harvest is a lively five-week event in early summer. This year it is a soggy three-week scramble in between the very worst of the downpours. So why has the ...

There's something oddly comforting about the flavor associations we have with certain colors; red candies, for example, are almost always strawberry- or cherry-flavored, while purple is always grape.

Scientists are working with the company behind the popular British fruit drink Ribena to boost the vitamin C content of blackcurrants in a move that would be a major benefit to consumers and farmers.