Only 20 grams and yet it constitutes a record.
A blueberry, harvested on November 13, 2023 in New South Wales (Australia) was officially crowned “largest blueberry in the world” by the very serious Guinness World Records, this Tuesday, March 12.
Produced by Brad Hocking, Jessica Scalzo and Marie-France Courtois, the fruit measures 39.31 mm wide and weighs 20.4 g, a weight ten times greater than normal.
The previous record exploded
“When we put him on the scale, I was a little shocked.
“I knew they were big, but I had to double-check to get the weight,” Brad Hocking, blueberry manager at Costa, a fruit and vegetable producer in London, told the Guardian. Corindi, New South Wales, on the east coast of Australia.
The giant blueberry, of the Eterna variety, is now frozen, but there is talk of having it molded in resin and hanging it on the wall, Brad Hocking told the British daily.
The berry also shatters the previous record for the heaviest blueberry in the world with a weight 1.25 times larger than the 16.2 g recorded for two blueberries produced in Western Australia in 2018 and 2020.
New record: Heaviest blueberry - 20.40 g (0.71 oz) grown by Brad Hocking, Jessica Scalzo and Marie-France Courtois in New South Wales, Australia 🫐 pic.twitter.com/UOEZ7F1zb0
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) March 15, 2024
The Eterna variety was created by the Costa fruit group, and is known for its slightly larger berries: during the harvest in November, around twenty blueberries had a size approaching that of the record fruit.
He also noted that demand for larger blueberries was increasing, an effect he said was linked to the fruit's wider use in baking and breakfast cereals.