Let's find out more about the rooibos, raspberry and strawberry infusion
Rooibos strawberries and raspberries is a blend based on rooibos, the famous "African red tea" dedicated to those who love sweetness. Rooibos is already sweeter than real tea, so much so that it is usually not sweetened, furthermore strawberries and raspberries like all the so-called berries are very sweet, so much so that in this herbal tea no sugars or sweeteners have been added. We have put the definition African red tea in quotation marks because in reality rooibos should not be called tea because tea is not any infusion with certain organoleptic characteristics, only infusions obtained from a plant native to Southeast Asia called Camellia sinensis should be called tea.
Rooibos, on the other hand, is an infusion that, due to the way the product is prepared and also to its taste and aroma, is very similar to tea (as we have said, it is sweeter and is described with notes of earth and tobacco), so much so that from a nutritional point of view it is not incorrect to call it tea, but it is obtained from a plant native to South Africa, the Aspalathus linearis, which as a botanical classification, being a Fabaceae is not even related to Camellia, but is related to legumes.
Rooibos is an Afrikaans word, the language of the Dutch colonists and their slaves, it means "red bush", but the plant is not red at all, the leaves are green, but they become red with fermentation which is the first phase of the process to obtain the product (also called rooibos), followed by drying and shredding. And in fact rooibos, intended as the product with which the infusion is prepared, is reddish. The history of the strawberry is very long and complex, already mentioned in Roman texts, but those species have nothing to do with the modern cultivated strawberry. In reality the name strawberry is applied to all the fruits (which are then false fruits from a botanical point of view, the real fruits of the strawberry are the seeds that you see on the surface of the strawberries which are instead the receptacle) of the genus Fragaria. Without writing a treatise on botany or agricultural history, the interesting thing to know is that even if in Europe the French began to grow strawberries in gardens as early as the 14th century, the modern strawberry is the fruit of the cross between Fragaria virginiana (imported from North America) and Fragaria chiloensis (native to Chile) which gave rise to the hybrid Fragaria x ananassa, essentially the large size of modern strawberries derives from the Chilean strawberry. Then of course farmers have selected many varieties, the most famous in Italy is certainly the large candonga, originally from Basilicata.
The raspberry is a shrub belonging to the Rosaceae family (the scientific name is Rubus idaeus) that grows spontaneously in the woods but is also easily cultivated in temperate climates. It has leaves that are not very large, but wide, that is, not elongated (the botanical term is broadleaf) that it loses during the winter. The raspberry is a fruit of the late summer period. As we have said, the raspberry is a fruit of temperate regions, the area of origin is Europe and the regions of northern Asia. There is an American raspberry that has sometimes been indicated as a variety of Rubus idaeus, but in reality botanists prefer to classify it as a distinct species: Rubus strigosus, in this case we have had an inverse path compared to the many species of plants for food consumption imported from the Americas, in fact now in the USA Rubus idaeus is grown, that is the European raspberry, or at most hybrids of the two species.
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