Organic Dried Elderberries, European Whole - Non-GMO Elderberry Berries Dried - For Tea, Immune Support - Kosher | 16 Ounce (Pack of 1)

These Frontier Co‑op organic dried elderberries are excellent quality. The berries are clean, dark, and full of flavor, and they make a rich, fragrant syrup every time. I appreciate that they’re certified organic and free from additives — just pure elderberries. The bag lasts a long time, and the quality is consistently reliable. Perfect for homemade syrups, teas, and wellness blends.

I purchased these to use with alcohol infusions and cold remedies. Great product. Flavor was great!. To me, i notice a difference between using actual berries vs extract syrups. If you want the real berries i 100% recommend these and this company's products.

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Elderberries are popular for their unusual taste in pies, jellies, wine, and jams. Elderberry juice was used to treat a flu epidemic in Panama in 1995. We use these dried berries to make homemade elderberry syrup due to its immune boosting properties and save LOTS of money over purchasing ready made syrups. We can the syrup via water bath method to make it more shelf stable. Open containers of the syrup should be safe for consumption for 90 days when stored properly in a refrigerator. We take anywhere from 1/2 TB to 1 TB dose daily. When ill, we take 1 T every 3 hours, up to 6 times per day. Our recipe is as follows: Homemade Elderberry Syrup Ingredients: 4 cup black elderberries (1 lb dried) 12 cups of water 4-6 cinnamon sticks cinnamon powder 1/2 - 1 Tb whole cloves 48 oz local organic honey How to Make Elderberry Syrup: Pour water into medium saucepan and add elderberries, cinnamon and cloves (do not add honey yet!) Bring to a boil and then cover and reduce to a simmer for about an hour until the liquid has reduced by almost half. At that point, remove from heat and let cool enough to be handled. Pour through a strainer into a large mixing bowl. Press the berries to extract as much liquid as possible from them. Discard the elderberries, cloves, and cinnamon sticks by composting them! Add honey to the liquid. When honey is well mixed into the elderberry mixture, proceed to can it in 8 or 16 oz canning jars via water bath method. Store open containers in the fridge (for up to 90 days) and take daily for its immune boosting properties. (Some sources recommend taking only during the week and not on the weekends to boost immunity) Standard dose is 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp for kids and 1/2 Tbsp to 1 Tbsp for adults. If the flu or a cold does strike, take the normal dose every 2-3 hours instead of once a day until symptoms disappear. *Recipe has been Modified from Wellness Mama Cost comparison for 1 TB Serving size: Homemade is $.166/ounce & Store Bought $2.625/ounce. -STORE VERSION: $21 for 16 servings (1 TB servings) $2.625 per ounce or $1.3125 per serving. -ORGANIC HOMEMADE: 93 oz, $31 for 186 servings (1 TB servings) $.33 per ounce or $.166 per serving Cost of Ingredients: Honey $11, $19 Elderberries $1.00 for spice to make 93 ounces. Each ounce is 2 servings.

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Impressed with this product'! Very clean, no stems , perfect for syrup!

We are not the crunchiest parents ever, but with two young children (aka "The Germ Magnets") a friend recommended we try elderberry syrup to reduce the duration of colds and other minor illnesses that they bring home. We tried a commercial elderberry syrup preparation but our 1.5 year old hated the taste and spit it out, not to mention it was very expensive. I found some recipes for homemade syrup and lacking a local source of elderberries, I ordered this 1 lb bag of organic dried berries. I procured the other ingredients locally and cooked up a batch on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The syrup was easy to make and both our 4 year old and 1.5 year old LOVE the taste and will happily take it. The kids each take 1 tsp/day and my husband and I take 2 tsp/day, increasing to that dosage several times a day when ill. This is not to replace actual medical care or prescribed medication - our older child is asthmatic and of course we follow her sick plan with inhalers when she's ill, in addition to supporting her immune system with the elderberry syrup. We all still get our flu shots, and if one of the kids spikes a high temp, off to the pediatrician we go. But we have found that using elderberry syrup to help support immune systems during the winter months has really reduced how long we'll feel under the weather from a cold bug. The recipe that we use for homemade elderberry syrup uses 2/3 cup of dried berries per batch, which produces around 20 oz of syrup. I used my FoodSaver to package up that pre-measured quantity for longer-term storage and we could make at least 5 batches of elderberry syrup from 1 lb of dried berries. Therefore, I expect that we will get approximately 100 oz of elderberry syrup from this single bag of dried berries - which cost around twice what we paid for 16 oz of commercial syrup (which was not organic). Of course there is a smaller expense for the additional ingredients in the homemade syrup recipe but it is still far more cost effective to make it using these dried berries!