What Makes Our Berry Powders Different

What does it mean to be nutrient dense? 

People say things are nutrient dense all the time. 

So what makes us different? 

First of all many manufactures use the term "nutrient density" loosely, without testing, whereas we do testing, and we share the results with our customers (Check out 2016's results here). We use a third party lab for the testing to avoid bias.

Nutrient density is a direct result of how healthy the plant is, and we work hard to make sure our plants and soils are healthy, by remineralizing the soil. Generally, the agriculture industry, across the nation, does not understand the importance of remineralizing our soils. It is these lacking minerals that contribute to nutrient density, along with aerobic soil microbiology. The two working in tandem, will create nutrient dense food.

Our definition of nutrient density:A higher concentration of nutrition in a given volume of food, meaning that our products exceed the USDA standards for nutrition.

Secondly, something we do differently with all of our products is that we start with premium berries. It may surprise people, but a lot of companies do not start with a premium product. This is why sugar is added to our foods - to hide and cover the sub-par ingredients that lack, not only nutrients, but also flavor. (Minerals ALWAYS make flavor, no exceptions.) Just because something is sweet does not mean it has flavor and nutrition.

Our powders act as a super charged way of getting the vitamins and minerals your body needs every day. For example; one spoonful of blueberry powder contains approximately the same nutrition as 8-10 spoonfuls of fresh blueberries.

Double Blueberry Breakfast Scones

This month is going to be really busy for us here on the blog. Every Saturday there will be a new post plus a couple of other posts that will be published through out the month. We hope you enjoy everything we have prepared! We are still exploring and playing around with our berry powders. They are so versatile that you can really use them in anything! It's sort of like adding salt or pepper to a recipe, it's just something that comes naturally. 

So first up are these delicious double blueberry scones, we used our dried blueberries and our blueberry powder in them. They are gluten free and if you replaced the honey with maple syrup or agave nectar then it would be vegan too! 

Serves: 8-12 Scones
Time:

Ingredients:

• 3 Cups Almond Flour
• 1 TSP Baking Soda
• 2 Eggs
• 2 TBSP Honey (or Agave Nectar,  or Maple Syrup)
• 4 TBSP Lemon Juice
• 1/2 Cup SVO Dried Blueberries
• 2 TSP SVO Blueberry Powder
• Pinch of Salt

*Optional: Add in 1/4 C. of chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Add the almond flour, baking soda, salt, blueberry powder,  and lemon zest to a large bowl and combine.
3. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the wet ingredients starting in the center, stir the dough until combined. Fold in dried blueberries (and chocolate chips if desired). 
4. Using a large ice cream scoop, drop the scones onto a prepared baking sheet. Lightly wet hands and gently flatten tops of the scones. They should be about 1 inch thick. 
5. Bake 18-20 mins until tops are golden brown.
6. Cool on wire rack.

*Store in air proof container.

Ways to use Organic Blueberry Powder

Sales of our Organic Blueberry Powder are continuing to grow. We haven't seen another source for 100% Blueberry, Organic whole berry powder. The taste is wonderful, and each teaspoon is packed with nutrients. At our farmer's market booth we constantly get questions about how to use the powder. Here are some thoughts, but get creative, we welcome your ideas...

Ways to Use Organic Blueberry Powder:

Blueberry flavored frosting or icing
Smoothies
Yogurt
Jello flavor booster (try it with lemon?)
Cookies (esp. good in oatmeal cookies)
Granola Bars
Cook it in your oatmeal.
put it in cakes, crumb cakes or buckles for added nutrition and flavor!

Tell us your best ideas...

The Power of Powder!

One of our many products includes Blueberry Powder, that is we send our berries to Oregon Freeze Dried, the freeze dry them, crush them, and send us the resulting powder.

Our powder is purely blueberries, no added sugar, no preservatives, and no additives of any sort. Thus making is very concentrated and a little will go a long way.

A commonly asked question is "How can I use this blueberry powder?" Well you can use it just as a spice in baking, add it to your everyday baking, in all of your favorite recipes for a new twist on them. You can put it in yogurt, add it to jello, on top of ice cream, and whatever else you can think of, just have fun with it!

With our powder you get all the anti-oxydants and minerals that are in our berries from this powder, just becasue they have been freeze dried dosent mean that they have lost their nutritinal value.