Cranberries

=Cranberries **Back to recipe**= Scientific name: //Vaccinium macrocorpon// Common name: Cranberry

The Cranberry is a Fruit.

What makes it a fruit? The cranberry is the edible part of what the flower produces that surrounds the seed.


 * Interesting Facts:**

- Cranberries bounce; the bouncier the cranberry, the fresher the cranberry.

- If all the cranberry bogs in the U.S were put together, they would make up an area which size would be close to the size of Nantucket, a small island.

- The oldest bog of cranberries is 138 years old.

- Native Americans used cranberries to make their survival cake.

- If undamaged, a cranberry vine can last up to 150 years.

Cranberry juice can be made into a dye to color fabrics. The Native Americans used the dye to color their clothing. Some of their techniques that they used to dye their clothes are still used today.
 * About Cranberries**