If Rosehips Are A Superfood, Why Don’t We Eat Them?

Rosehips are a superfood with roughly eight times the vitamin C of an orange, and they grow on rose bushes in almost every park. In World War 2, Britain paid children threepence a pound to pick them. So why don't we eat rosehips anymore? In this video we follow the rosehip from the discovery of vitamin C and the fight against scurvy, to the wartime rosehip syrup that kept British children healthy, to why it vanished when oranges came back. We look at the itchy hairs inside every hip, Sweden's rosehip soup (nyponsoppa), the science behind rosehip powder as a superfood, why vitamin C fades so fast, and how you can prepare wild rosehips yourself. Timestamps: 0:00 Why don't we eat rosehips? 0:45 Scurvy and the discovery of vitamin C 2:01 Britain's wartime rosehip harvest 3:48 Why rosehips disappeared 4:43 Rosehip soup and the countries that never stopped 5:39 Is rosehip really a superfood? 8:41 How to eat rosehips References: The Nobel Prize, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Physiology or Medicine 1937: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/med... Plant-lore, Gathering rose hips (wartime rosehip collection): https://www.plant-lore.com/plantofthe... Rose hip, nutrition and vitamin C (USDA figures): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_hip NutraIngredients, Rosehip reduces osteoarthritis pain, says meta-analysis (2008): https://nutraingredients-usa.com/Arti... Rose hip review on vitamin C content and variability (PMC): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... Itching powder and rose hip hairs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itching...