Why Eat Organic & Wild Berries?

Strawberries are one the most popular fruits eaten in the United States. It is also one of the top three foods on the “Dirty Dozen” list. The “Dirty Dozen” are foods consistently found with the mos...

Organic vs. Conventional

Organic vs. Conventional? A healthy lifestyle includes eating right and making healthy choices. An extensive debate that has long been brewing includes the idea of eating foods that are conventiona...

Are Frozen Berries Healthier Than Fresh?

In addition to being a delicious part of any diet, berries have long been considered super foods that are packed with essential vitamins, minerals, and powerful antioxidants. Berries are often avai...

Antioxidants in Berries May Help Reduce Cancer

Antioxidants in berries may help reduce cancer. Scientists know certain foods contain compounds that help protect against some types of cancers. How these phytochemicals, or naturally occurring pla...

Wild Berries

Move over blueberries, the REAL, healthy berries are in town. Huckleberries, lingonberries, gooseberries, currants, are all rare, possibly unheard of berries. However, they all have two very import...

Wild Canadian Blueberries

We are pleased to offer a quality product that tastes great and is extremely healthy. Our wild Canadian blueberries are handpicked at optimal ripeness in the rugged lowlands of Vancouver Island; th...

Dried Lingonberries: True Superfood

Northwest Wild Foods is proud to introduce our all natural dried lingonberries. Dried Wild Lingonberries are one of the best tasting and healthiest foods on the planet. Although processing foods ch...

Understanding ORAC Units

Antioxidants play an extremely important role in the human diet and levels vary greatly between different foods. This is why scientists developed the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) syste...

What are Antioxidants?

Oxidation and Free Radicals Oxidation occurs naturally to our bodies for various reasons including pollution, poor diet, and aging, amongst other things. As oxidation persists, it creates an excess...

The Story of the Wild Blue Huckleberry

Mention wild blue huckleberries to old timers and someone will undoubtedly argue whether or not it's really a huckleberry, or whether it's a wild blueberry. No one ever seems to win these arguments...