Pick rose hips after 1st frost for the sweetest taste. Cut in half, clean out the seeds. Can eat raw...3 hips = vitamin C in 1 orange. Rose hips have 20 times more vitamin C than an orange, ounce per ounce. Eat raw, dry them in the oven (dehydrate) or just add 12 rose hips to pan & boil for 15 minutes to make tea.