Elderberry products are healthy, delicious, and available at Todd Hill

While elderberry is cited across many sources for its health benefits, it is also quite delicious. Our market carries several products starring elderberry as the main ingredient, and they are quite popular. Wed M.D. lists conditions that elderberry has been used as a treatment for (constipation, joint and muscle pain, headaches, and stress-- among others), likely due to antioxidant qualities and vitamins it contains.

The flavor profile of elderberry is tart, sometimes slightly sweet, astringent, woodsy-piney, dark fruit and delicately floral. When cooked, tartness yields to sweetness; it is recommended that they be cooked first. Elderberry pairs well with wild game.

At Todd Hill, we love to support our vendors who offer diverse elderberry products; Bee Hollow Farm's Wild Elderberry Syrup flies out the door -- our customers love it as a sweet and savory ingredient or drizzled over ice cram. Immuneschein (immune-schein.com) adds a nice elderberry and local maple contender to their robust line up of ginger/lemon/honey elixirs -- which can be taken as a daily shot for health, used in dressings, marinades, or beverages. Food and Ferments (foodandferments.com) produces a lovely vinegar based tonic to punch up mocktails and cocktails -- their Elderberry Tonic also lists oranges, lemons, wildflower honey, garlic, jalepeno, black peppercorn and rosehips.

These products are amazingly diverse and showcase the prolific elderberry in liquid forms.