Bilberry extracts

PRODUCT ORIGINS

myrtillus is a small shrub of about a foot in height with sweet, plump blue black berry. It grows in heats and woods of northern Europe, western Asia and the rockies of western North America.

Vaccinium myrtillus has been valued for centuries as a nutrition food and a wild edible delicacy.

Modern interest in it arose through the observation that it could enhance night vision. In the mid 60 ’, reference to these observations eventually led to the first laboratory and then clinical studies on the effect of its fruit extract on the eyes and vascular system.

The effectivness of the extract was also linked to a group of compound called anthocyans, the pigments responsible for the red, blue or violet colors in flowers and fruits.

This compound could help to contribute to bilberry ’s beneficial effects too.