Plural of chokeberry; small dark berries from shrubs that pucker your mouth with their astringency.
From 'choke' + 'berry', named for their extremely sour, mouth-puckering taste that feels like choking on the flavor.
Chokeberries were considered worthless until modern research discovered they're packed with anthocyanins—now they're a superfood, proving that our ancestors' flavor-based plant rejection system sometimes threw away pharmacy in their mouths.
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