History of Blueberries

According to Native American blueberry is good for health. It helps the woman during childbirth, the tea leaves were good for kidneys and the juice was good for cough. Native American also dried his leave in sun and ground it into powder and us it to make pudding and it was used to season the meat.

Among the first American settlers who saw how American Indian used blueberries was Samuel de Champlain. He saw that the Native American grounded the leave to powder then mixed with corn and honey then water to make a pudding. The settlers also found that the Indians smoked wild blueberries during winter to preserve them.

The Native American tribes revered blueberries and folklore developed around them. The blossom end of each berry, the calyx, forms the shape of a perfect five-pointed star; the elders of the tribe would tell of how the Great Spirit sent "star berries" to relieve the children's hunger during a famine.