Aronia, The Ink‑Black Berry Redefining Antioxidant Power
Aronia berries—better known as chokeberries—are the ink‑black fruits quietly usurping blueberries as the antioxidant benchmark. During field work in Finland I watched these hardy shrubs flourish in acidic, sub‑arctic soils, yielding crops so rich in polyphenols that their juice stains gloves purple for days. That lived experience mirrors laboratory data showing Aronia’s oxygen‑radical‑absorbance score outpaces…