Day 4 (30-day challenge) - What’s the difference between “blueberry” and ...”blueberry”? In Russian In previous text I told you that in Russia we like to go to the forest to pick blueberries. But I found out there are 2 types of berries in Russia with the same name “blueberry” in English, and in Russian they have different names: “chernika” and “golubika”. To be honest, during my trips to Europe or Asia I’ve never seen the one that we call “chernika” in stores/ markets. Only “golubika” was sold there. So these berries actually look and taste similar, but still there are some differences. I’ll briefly tell you about them. Berries has differences in color, size, shape and taste. “Chernika” berries are smaller, has more darker color – sometimes very dark blue or almost black color, and their taste is more like sweety-sour. “Golubika” berries are bigger, has lighter blue color, fruits are more fleshy and thick, their taste sometimes sweet, sometimes tasteless, but more often just neutral. Juice of “Chernika” has dark red or dark violet color, and it stains mouth, hands and even your clothes if you weren’t accurate by chance. “Chernika” fruits have round shape, and “Golubika” has a bit elongated shape. “Chernika” more high-calorie, and it contains ascorbic acid and antioxidants. “Chernika” improves the immune system, helps for eyesight, strenghten the retina. “Golubika” uses for diets for losing weight, heart and blood vessels strenghtening, cell regeneration. On the picture below you can see both of them and comparing of their differences. But guess which one is Chernika and which one is Golubika? :)