name: Lingonberry

flavor_db_name_variants: lingonberry

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Lingonberry

id: 194

name_scientific: Vaccinium vitis-idaea

description: Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or cowberry) is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible sour, slightly sweet, slightly bitter fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America. In the past it was seldom cultivated, but fruit was commonly collected in the wild. Recently, commercial cultivation has begun in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

itis_id: 505637

wikipedia_id: Vaccinium vitis-idaea

picture_file_name: 194.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 254126

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:43:36.000Z

legacy_id: 206

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Berries

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:25.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:18.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 180772

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00194