Comments on: Rosella Season

By: beate kiwinda

beate kiwinda — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:41:09 +0000

Hi there, I live in Tanzania and here we use the red leaves to make jam or juice. It is recommendet even by Doctors especially for pregnant women to increase their bloodlevel.
jam: peal of the red leafes, put them in the blender with little water. bring to boil mixed with sugar and fill in jars while hot. closed airtight it can stay outside of the fridge even 3 month.
1 kg of leaves to 1 kg of sugar or less sugar if you are using a jelling agent.
juice: use dried read leaves (100gr. make 7liters),soak in boiling hot water, leave about half hour. Drain first juice through a siff into a jug, return the leaves in the pot and add again water, this time it does not need to bee hot. leave for another hour and drain that juice. mix it with the first lot, add water and sugar to tast.
nice as cold juice or ice lolly for kids. in winter also good as tea.
please send me more nutritional infos if available. thanks

By: philemon aika

philemon aika — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:00:30 +0000

The crop is not part of the customary diet in Africa,but its grown because of its export portentials.it can make impact on povety reduction to the small farmes in the villeges.It can be used as source of income to the poor people.It has no stiff competetion in the world market since it face fewer demand constraints.so please keep on making more research on the crop.

By: Steve Hall

Steve Hall — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:34:16 +0000

Rosellas are not native to Australia. They came to us from India but originated in Africa.

By: Katrina McKay

Katrina McKay — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:52:41 +0000

This is a great image of the Native Rosella fruit. Is it possible for me to get permission to use it for some Indigenous educational material my Department is putting together?
I look forward to your reply,
katrina