Eden Organic – Organic Dried Cranberries 1 oz

Organic EDEN Dried Cranberry Pocket Snacks are a native American variety Vaccinium macrocarpon organically grown in Québec, Canada. Cranberry ‘bogs’ are impermeable layers of sand, peat, gravel, clay, and organic matter from the cranberry vines. The vines are fussy and need special conditions like acidic peat soil, an adequate supply of fresh water with periodic flooding, sand, and a long growing season extending from April to November.

EDEN Dried Cranberries are wet harvested. The bogs are flooded with 12′ to 18′ of water. Ripe cranberries have air bubbles in them. When separated from the vines by a water wheel machine, they float to the surface. Harvesters wade into the bog and using a hand gathering device they corral the berries into a large thick red carpet of berries, which are scooped into trucks and taken to processing. The cranberries are cleaned, sorted, and quick frozen. When ready for drying the cranberries are thawed and infused with organic apple juice concentrate to reach just the right sweetness or ‘Brix’. The infused cranberries are rinsed, low heat air dried, and very lightly misted with organic sunflower oil to prevent clumping.