Foraging in Boreal Forest: Wild Food Plants of the Republic of Karelia, NW Russia
While the current consumption of wild food plants in the taiga of the American continent is a relatively well-researched phenomenon, the European taiga area is heavily underrepresented in the scientific literature. The region is important due to its distinctive ecological conditions with restricted...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7466288 2023-05-15T17:01:09+02:00 Foraging in Boreal Forest: Wild Food Plants of the Republic of Karelia, NW Russia Kolosova, Valeria Belichenko, Olga Rodionova, Alexandra Melnikov, Denis Sõukand, Renata 2020-07-29 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466288/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32751145 https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9081015 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466288/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32751145 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9081015 © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Foods Article Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9081015 2020-09-20T00:20:46Z While the current consumption of wild food plants in the taiga of the American continent is a relatively well-researched phenomenon, the European taiga area is heavily underrepresented in the scientific literature. The region is important due to its distinctive ecological conditions with restricted seasonal availability of wild plants. During an ethnobotanical field study conducted in 2018–2019, 73 people from ten settlements in the Republic of Karelia were interviewed. In addition, we conducted historical data analysis and ethnographical source analysis. The most widely consumed wild food plants are forest berries (three Vaccinium species, and Rubus chamaemorus), sap-yielding Betula and acidic Rumex. While throughout the lifetime of the interviewees the list of used plants did not change considerably, the ways in which they are processed and stored underwent several stages in function of centrally available goods, people’s welfare, technical progress, and ideas about the harm and benefit of various products and technological processes. Differences in the food use of wild plants among different ethnic groups living in the region were on the individual level, while all groups exhibited high variability in the methods of preparation of most used berries. The sustainability of berry use over time has both ecological and economical factors. Text karelia* Republic of Karelia Rubus chamaemorus taiga PubMed Central (PMC) Foods 9 8 1015 |
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While the current consumption of wild food plants in the taiga of the American continent is a relatively well-researched phenomenon, the European taiga area is heavily underrepresented in the scientific literature. The region is important due to its distinctive ecological conditions with restricted seasonal availability of wild plants. During an ethnobotanical field study conducted in 2018–2019, 73 people from ten settlements in the Republic of Karelia were interviewed. In addition, we conducted historical data analysis and ethnographical source analysis. The most widely consumed wild food plants are forest berries (three Vaccinium species, and Rubus chamaemorus), sap-yielding Betula and acidic Rumex. While throughout the lifetime of the interviewees the list of used plants did not change considerably, the ways in which they are processed and stored underwent several stages in function of centrally available goods, people’s welfare, technical progress, and ideas about the harm and benefit of various products and technological processes. Differences in the food use of wild plants among different ethnic groups living in the region were on the individual level, while all groups exhibited high variability in the methods of preparation of most used berries. The sustainability of berry use over time has both ecological and economical factors. |
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