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Botanical cuisine

Rosehip

Rosa canina

Why we love this botanical

R osehip opens with a fresh, red fruit scent that immediately adds vitality to the glass. The first impression is bright and slightly acidic, but also warm and ripe due to deep berry tones. The resulting color — soft ruby red — invites attentive tasting. Rosehip feels both energetic and round, as if the herb brings tension and comfort in a single movement. In blends, it provides a modern, lively fruit structure.

During steeping, the acids and aromatic fruit tones are gently released, giving the infusion a supple, wine-like roundness. The balance between freshness and depth makes rosehip particularly suitable for brightening sweet botanicals as well as refreshing warm herbs. The aftertaste remains slightly tingling and elegantly dry. Rosehip gives every blend a red, sparkling energy that makes the whole clearer, more exciting, and at the same time harmonious.

Habitat & Origin

Rosehips from Rosa canina grow in hedges, forest edges, and open field margins in temperate regions of Europe and West Asia. The bushes prefer rooting in calcareous, well-drained soils and get enough sun to turn the fruits deep red. The hips are harvested in late autumn when they are full, elastic, and aromatic. For infusions, the fruits are halved or pitted after selection and then slowly dried so that fruit acids, pectins, and color pigments are preserved. Maison Tisane selects rosehip based on size, color, and scent: uniform pieces with a bright red-orange profile and a fresh, slightly acidic-fruity nose, without burnt or oxidative tones.

Active compounds

Rosehip contains natural fruit acids, pectins, and phenols that together build the bright, sparkling acid structure and the ruby red color. These compounds provide a round, lively fruit layer with a soft berry tone. In blends, rosehip brings freshness, tension, and a modern, tingling fruitiness without becoming sharp.

Ayurvedic approach

Rosehip has a fresh, slightly astringent energy in Ayurveda that soothes Pitta and refines Kapha, while Vata remains largely neutral. In European harvest traditions, rosehips were seen as 'Indian summer fruits': small, firm, and slightly acidic — symbols of holding onto sun warmth in cooler months. Energetically, rosehip feels like autumn light through berry bushes — bright, tingling, and softly ordering.

Thermal energy (Virya) neutral

Pitta

Increasing

Increasing Balancing

Effect: light increasing

Vata

Balancing

Increasing Balancing

Effect: light balancing

Kapha

neutral

Increasing Balancing

Effect: neutral

Flavour profile & Blending

Intensity

Strong

Accessibility

Accessible

Character

sour, fruity

Role in the blend

Base or harmonising herb (30–80%): forms the main body of the blend and brings the other ingredients into balance.

The indicated percentage refers to the approximate weight proportion of this herb within the total blend, but it can of course be adjusted to give the herb a more dominant or more subtle role.

Rosehip contrasts with its bright, red acids and supports by bringing fruit roundness. It gives hibiscus a wine-like elegance and makes orange peel livelier. With mint or lemongrass, a fresh, modern tension is created, while rosehip clarifies the honey warmth of rooibos or marigold. In berry blends, it acts as a backbone: it organizes sweetness and gives red fruit a tighter, more mature structure.

Rosehip pairs beautifully with cheesecake, panna cotta, yogurt with honey, lemon cake, forest fruit compote, and white chocolate. The fresh acids lift creamy structures and give sweet desserts tension. Also in savory dishes, such as couscous with pumpkin or grilled halloumi with pomegranate, rosehip offers a fruity, clarifying counter-color.

More flavour details

Selection guide (aroma directions)

Intensity
5
Freshness
1
Citrus
2
Fruity
7
Floral
1
Spicy / Herbal
1
Earthy / Woody
1

Food pairing (structure)

Sweetness
1
Sourness
8
Bitterness
1
Astringency
3
Body
4
Aftertaste length
4
Sharpness / Pungency
0
Blending notes: vegetal (2/10)

Precautions

Vitamin C bomb that can affect lithium levels. Consult if on lithium therapy.

Experience Rosehip

Discover the versatility of this botanical in our blends, or use it as the foundation for your own creation in our Blendstudio.


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