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high quality new crop import organic siyah goji berry
Goji, goji berry, or wolfberry, is the fruit of either Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense, two closely related species of boxthorn in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.
Both species are native to Asia, and have been long used in traditional Asian cuisine. The fruits are similar but can be distinguished by small but significant differences in taste, sugar content, and content of the aminoacid betaine.
The fruit has also been an ingredient in traditional Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese medicine, since at least the 3rd century CE. The plant parts are called by the Latin names lycii fructus (fruit), herba lycii (leaves), etc., in modern official pharmacopeias.
Since about 2000, goji berry and derived products became common in the West as health foods or alternative medicine remedies extending from exaggerated and unproven claims about their health benefits
Uses
Fresh goji berries (The wrinkling is due to postharvest dehydration.)
Dried goji berries
Traditional Asian cuisine
Young wolfberry shoots and leaves are harvested commercially as a leaf vegetable.
Health food
Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum) seed oil in a clear glass vial
Since the early 21st century, the dried fruit has been marketed in the Western world as a health food, amidst scientifically unsupported claims regarding such benefits. In the wake of those claims, dried and fresh goji berries were included in many snack foods and food supplements, such as granola bars,yogurt, tea blends, fruit juices and juice concentrates, whole fruit purées, and dried pulp flour. There have been also commercial products of whole and ground wolfberry seeds, and seed oil.
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