JustIngredients Essentials Bilberries 250 g

I bought this as bilberries are so hard to find. I add the dried bilberries to my morning porridge and leave them to soak for ten minutes; delicious

As you consider buying this product, I wonder if you are thinking what I was thinking? Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to make a real Finnish "mustikkapiirakka" (often translated into English as blueberry pie, but in fact blueberries haven't got a cut on mustikka / bilberry... blueberries are big, wet and flavourless in comparison to the sharp, blue-fleshed Proustian tang of a Finnish childhood). Anyway, as nowhere in London can you buy fresh bilberries (believe me I've looked), and as I've been living here for so long, I did a perhaps dappy thing: I bought these dried bilberries thinking I might be able to reconstitute them in water, or lob them in a pie dry (to reconstitute themselves in the nearest to rahka that you can get in the UK)... Answer: no you can't. You will not get anything like the mustikkapiirakka of your youth, and you will struggle to come up with any alternative use for these flat tasting, chewy little dots... the most I can offer is this: soak them in water overnight, drain, and drink the juice chilled. It's a bit like mustaherukka drink... which will give you another flashback to your Finnish youth - just not the one you intended :-) As my intended use was somewhat fanciful, please judge my review on that basis - probably not the product's fault that it didn't do what I dreamed.

Very disappointed. Soaked them overnight but they didn't plump up well and didn't taste like the fresh ones or the krakus ones. Wouldn't recommend them or buy again.

These bilberries are okay, quite dry but as I'm using them in cooking this is not a problem. What is a problem are the two small stones I found in the bag, one of which I nearly broke my tooth on! I'd order again if this could be resolved. I'm only posting about this because it is dangerous if they are left unchecked.

Nice quality and delicious tasting. Multi uses.

As expected

I bought these blueberries and i would not recommend these they had a strange smell and when dehydrated the smell was stronger and tasted horrible so I had to throw them away 1star was 1 to many

I thought these were a good buy. A good pack size and when cleaned and boiled are just as if they had been picked in the woods. I add them to my fruit, nut and yoghurt breakfast; they inprove the flavour and hopefully keep my eyesight good