Are Elderberries Poisonous? Get Health Benefits & Limit Risks!!! #elderberries #osiadaczfamilyfarm

are you worried about some of the things you may have read or heard about cyanide and elderberries now if you have i am going to walk you through step by step how to not only pick but process your elderberries in a way where you get all of the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory health benefits but doing so in a way where you limit your risk to cyanide i'm laura here at oshawa's family farm now i'm a busy working mom and i have found a way to balance my full-time busy career life alongside with growing and using natural whole foods for a healthier diet now if this sounds like you and you might even be struggling to find that balance i would ask you to please subscribe to this channel as well as ring that bell so you are the first to know when i upload a new video okay we are now at my favorite elderberry bush and here we're going to talk about which berries to pick and concerns of cyanide so you first want to make sure the berries are ripe and to do so here we actually just wait until after our first frost but i always double check them and i recommend you check them prior to picking and i just squeeze the berry and if the juice is mostly purple the berry is ripe second is the concern about the cyanide that i had mentioned early on and there are certain parts of the plants that have the most concentrated areas for cyanide concern and that includes the branches and the leaves as well as the seeds so when we are going to process the elderberries we're going to eliminate any leaves any branches that takes care of that now we get to the seed the seed is actually there's really very limited concern of any kind of cyanide issues when you cook the elderberries so the moral here is um cook your old berries you know turn them into elderberry jelly ellie berry jam elderberry syrup there's just so many things but you just want to make sure you're cooking your elderberries now for the fun part we actually get to pick our elderberries [Music] [Music] well we've picked our elderberries and i have them out here on trays and i am going to have my son johnny who i will introduce you to shortly show you how we remove the berries from the stems so we have a five gallon bucket here here is my son johnny give everybody a wave johnny all right and we are going to show you just how simple and easy this is look how easily those berries come right off the branches and one of the reasons this is the best method in my opinion is if they don't come off easily the berries are not ripe all right we are joined by my son johnny again and we are going to soak our berries so we're going to go ahead and put that five gallon bucket into the sink and we are gonna soak those berries with nice cold water [Music] okay i want you to take a look in the bucket here as you can see any remnants of the branches or stems as well as the undesirable berries have risen to the pop so we are going to go ahead and just skim these off really quickly and then we'll go ahead and drain the water and remove all of those wonderful delicious elder berries that we'll be using here shortly [Music] okay we are almost done we have picked our elderberries we've taken them off the stems we have soaked them removed our extra debris we are now finally ready to drain the water and we're going to go ahead and put these onto trays where i'll let them dry a little bit and then we're going to flash freeze them and we can put them in ziploc bags to preserve them to use at a later date [Music] so you saw me drain the bucket of elderberries into the colander now i have taken those berries lined these cookie trays with paper towels and i'm letting them dry for about 20 minutes our next step is going to remove these paper towels place the elderberries on the cookie sheets for one more time i'm gonna flash freeze them and after that point we will put them into our ziploc brags and they'll be ready for permanent freezing okay our elderberries are done drying i'm gonna go ahead and put them into the bowl prior to placing them on for new cookie sheets for flash freeze now efficiency is the name of the game here so let's just see how quickly we can do this i bet it takes us less than two minutes [Music] all right we are all done i have my bag of frozen elderberries here they're ready to go into the freezer until i'm ready to use them to make a syrup or a jam or a jelly i would love to hear some of the recipes you use for your elderberries which brings me to the fact that you don't have to spend all day and all night preparing healthy food you can be a busy working mom or dad just have a busy lifestyle and you don't have to give up your life to raise food to use whole foods and you can just incorporate that into our your busy lifestyle and so i have created a series of videos where i give fast time saving tips to incorporate fresh foods into your diet and how to preserve them so you can use them later if that's something you're interested in i ask you to please go to my channel and check some of those videos out until next time

Channel: Osiadacz Family Farm

Views: 2,553

Keywords: Elderberries, healthybenefits, cyanide, osiadaczfamilyfarm, forage, risks, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory

Id: 2WXK6DB1IJc

Length: 7min 46sec (466 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 05 2021