ext_138342 ([identity profile] kareina.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kareina 2013-12-05 01:06 pm (UTC)

The label said it was made of just dried and ground rosehips. The two recipes on the package (which I didn't try) were for energy bars that involved nuts or seeds, oats, fat and sugar, the rosehip flour +/- dried fruit. So not too different from what I made, but their version looked sweeter).

The stores here also sell boxes of "nypponsoppa", or "rosehip soup", which is a mix of dried powdered rosehips and sugar (and who knows what, if anything else) that one mixes with boiling water to make a very thick liquid, which is then eaten/drunk. I have seen my sweetie enjoy it, but it was so sweet I wasn't tempted. It didn't occur to me to try that stuff in baking (though I bet it would substitute well for sugar in a sweet cake or quick bread), and now I don't have to, because I have an unsweetened variety. I suspect that there may be some health-conscious Swedes who grew up eating "nypponsoppa" who prefer to make their own from the flour version +/- their own choice of how much sugar to add.

Let me know if you find it there--I now wonder if I never noticed it when I lived elsewhere because I never looked. Certainly it has probably been on the shelves here for the whole (nearly) three years I have been here, but I didn't notice before this week.

I hope you do have it available locally--you guys could do all kinds of interesting things with it, I think.

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