Rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum Rhubarb is as various as life itself some wants to add some sweetness with sugar, others just eat it as it is, without even a squint in their eyes. Remember the thirst from your childhood that only your grandma could quench with her sweet and sour homemade compote. She knew rhubarb improves your mood as well as appetite! Born in the mountains of Tibet, Latvian rhubarb most commonly meets a mountain of sugar, because rhubarbs stem immersed in a pail of sugar is the first homemade childhood dessert. Rhubarb is an easy way to get a lot of necessary vitamins. It grows without any effort and gives not only one, but a lot of different vitamins! Earlier they were grown in the garden of pharmacies so that they could produce different kind of pharmaceuticals. But now we have a possibility to drink rhubarb juice and syrup all year round.