Grab a boost of blue for one easy, nutritious solution to eating well. With a variety of vitamins and minerals and an American Heart Association® Heart-Check certification, your head and your heart agree – blueberries are a smart choice you can make every day.

Blueberries are an international superstar, and here in the U.S., they’re grown with care from coast to coast. You can even plant a blueberry bush in your backyard! Don’t worry, though – with blueberry farms in 38 states, you don’t need a green thumb to get a boost of blue.

Blueberries are a healthy, stress-free food. You get fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K, manganese and potassium in every handful of blueberries – at just 80 calories per cup. 1 They’re also low in sodium and have virtually no fat.

Blueberries turn greenish-blue in a batter that has too much baking soda (or grey in a smoothie with a lot of dairy), which creates an alkaline environment. That’s why mixing a little lemon juice into your batter or smoothie will give you a more vibrant color.

Blueberries aren’t just simple, healthy and delicious – they’re wonderfully versatile! Tell us what ingredients you have on hand, and we’ll tell you what you can whip up for a tasty boost of blue.

Try these Blueberry Almond Chicken Salad Wraps or this Summer Fruit Salad with Jalapeno Mint & Lime. Or, if you are looking to give a traditional, store-bought dressing a boost of blue, this Blueberry Balsamic Dressing will do the trick.

Sunny skies, laughter and handfuls of delicious blueberries. It just doesn’t get much better than picking your own berries fresh from the farm! There are passionate blueberry growers from coast to coast, excited to welcome you to the farms they’ve nurtured for decades.

Take a journey through the growing season of a blueberry bush, from the spring sweep of beautiful white blooms to the harvest’s lush green canopy, peppered with fruit ripening to their unmistakable silvery-blue hue, and the colder, dormant period brightened by …

Identify the Best Blueberry Plants. When you grab a boost of blue in North America, you’re most often eating highbush blueberries. However, the highbush blueberry classification covers a range of different blueberry varieties, each of which is unique in its season, size, shape, color and taste.

Our favorite boost of blue isn’t new – blueberries, native to North America, have been part of life here for 13,000 years. The first highbush blueberry bush was successfully cultivated for commercial production in the early 1900s, and today, we grow nearly 1 billion pounds of blueberries in North America each year. A delicious legacy!