Harvest time for “our” aronia berries

The dark purple to almost black aronia berries (Aronia melanocarpa, black chokeberry) are now ripe and are being harvested by our farmers. Many so-called superfruits, which are rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants or other important plant substances, are imported from far away. Aronia berries, on the other hand, grow right on our doorstep or in the aronia fields of our farmers. We are pleased that we can therefore keep transportation routes short and offer a healthy Swiss product. The chokeberry plant is an extremely frugal, uncomplicated berry bush and the berries delight us with an astonishing range and quantity of interesting ingredients (including vitamin C and polyphenols, for example).

We are grateful for the good cooperation with our chokeberry farmers, but also for the warm summer and the good yield from the chokeberry fields. With aronia, the superfood, we can produce our popular products Aronia Vida and Aronia Shot. Do you already know our Aronia chocolate? The dark vegan dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 71% and 5% fine-tart chokeberry extract tastes delicious. We source our cocoa and cane sugar from organic farming and fair trade.

For all our chokeberry products we use chokeberry extract and not pomace. There is a significant difference between chokeberry pomace and chokeberry extract.Chokeberry extract is a highly concentrated form of chokeberry pomace. Around 27 chokeberries are needed to produce one chokeberry capsule!