Aronia Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Aronia (Aronia melanocarpa), the black chokeberry, is a deciduous shrub of the rose family, Rosaceae, native to wet woods, swamps, and bog edges of eastern North America from Newfoundland to Georgia and west to Minnesota. It grows 1 to 3 meters, suckering into thickets, with glossy dark green leaves that turn wine-red in autumn, flat clusters of small white flowers in late spring, and hanging bunches of pea-sized, violet-black berries in late summer. The fruit is so astringent and dry on the tongue that it chokes the mouth, hence the common name; Poland and the US Midwest grow it for juice and jam. We extract the dried berry.