Starwest Botanicals Rosehips Organic - Dried Herb for Tea & Baking, Natural Source of Vitamin C, Seedless, Cut & Sifted, Certified Kosher, Non-GMO - Bulk 1 lb Bag

Thank you!

This is my second time buying this product, and I absolutely love it. I brew a couple of large mason jars of it overnight. Then, I heat it up with some honey and enjoy it weekly. I think it tastes really good! The bag is huge and lasts me for months.

I use rose hips in my teas regularly, and these seem to be organic, highest quality without seeds. One note, packaging states they are sourced from Chile (not shown on web site description)

It is an excellent addition to make my Elderberry syrup.

I use these rosehips in my homemade elderberry syrup. I've been a long time, repeat user of this brand and it is definitely my favorite. When I make elderberry syrup I just scoop a scoop of these into my water as well and simmer it with my elderberries for extra immunity and health longevity.They taste great and and a sweet flavor to the elderberry syrup. The bag is a little bit of a pain but I always just store it in a glass container or ziplock bag to keep them fresh longer.

A good cup of tea.

So far I've used these as an additional beneficial ingredient in making elderberry syrup, in order to increase the Vitamin C, and for the antiinflammatory action. I was very positively impressed with the fresh aroma, and appearance of the intact hips. This is the first time I've made elderberry syrup, so I don't have a baseline I can compare it to, but it was quite easy to make, adding the rosehips didn't make it any more difficult to make (in my electric pressure cooker), the taste is quite lovely, and I happily slurp it down as needed medicinally.I'll try some in tea when I have it American style, as opposed to the Chinese teas I usually drink. (I don't think it would be a good addition to pu'erh or oolong.)

I opted to try this brand of rosehips because, unlike the Frontier brand I previously bought (my review is on their page), this company (Starwest) at least lists the country of origin on the package, as seen in the picture. I even mentioned in my Frontier review that I was switching to Starwest specifically because they list the country of origin, which is Chile. The Starwest product arrived a few days ago and, lo and behold, the package lists "South Africa" as the country of origin. Not that either country's growing practices and oversight is better or worse (and frankly, how am I supposed to really know anything about either? I'm sitting here unawares in the United States) but it irked me a tad that despite the picture they show on this product page, and the answer "Chile" when customers ask the country of origin in the Q & A section, this stuff was from another country entirely. Can these companies please get their advertising straight? With all the reasons we buy or don't buy products, many consumers consider "country of origin" as a stipulation of whether to buy or not. Seems like a lazy business practice, which doesn't instill faith in the consumer. (PS yeah, the rosehips are fine.)