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What Is Goji?

There is a lot of talk about goji berries in the market today, which makes one wonder about what this so-called miracle fruit really is. The goji berries come from a vine-like plant that can sometimes reach 15-20 feet in height. This is commonly found in the Ningxia Province in China. Many people describe the goji berry plant as a mix between a grape vine, and a tomato creeper.

What Is Goji?

There is a lot of talk about goji berries in the market today, which makes one wonder about what this so-called miracle fruit really is. The goji berries come from a vine-like plant that can sometimes reach 15-20 feet in height. This is commonly found in the Ningxia Province in China. Many people describe the goji berry plant as a mix between a grape vine, and a tomato creeper.

The Goji Berry has been around for centuries and trusted by the people in and around the Himalayas, Mongolia and Tibet to prolong life and provide the body with essential antioxidants and nutrients thus making it one of the seven super foods. The other super foods that have been proven to give you a longer and healthier life include the Acai fruit, Seabuckthorn, Fucoidan, GAC fruit, Noni fruit, and Mangosteen fruit which are all found in a new revolutionary health drink, called Exfuze.
This health drink, Exfuze, that contains Goji Berry will change the way that people live and think about nutrition. We all know that vitamins and minerals such as vitamin C, A, B complex, folic acid, iron and zinc are important, but many do not know that all of the best antioxidants and nutrients are found in these seven botanicals. Many of these super foods are found in remote parts of the world where certain civilizations have known about their excellent health properties and have used them for many years. The Goji Berry is one of these and contains about 19 important amino acids which play an important role in improving your health and making you live longer.
The Goji Berry is considered to be the best of all the plants in its family. It is grown only in the valley of Tibet in unpolluted soil and with no dangerous chemicals or fertilizers. The Goji Berry fruits that are used in the health drink, Exfuze are 100 percent organic and cultivated to be the healthiest, top quality berries. They are small and red in color and have the most nutrients of all the 80 types of Lycium berries in the world. They grow on vines that can reach up to 20 meters and when they are ripe, they are shaken into collection trays to be inspected under stringent standards, and then used for the super drink, health drink, Exfuze.
The Goji Berry is considered to be a miracle fruit. It is said that you should have it frost thing in the morning to be happy all day long. The taste is described as somewhere between a cherry or raspberry to a plum and can also be added to cereals or eaten as they are. It is very difficult to get hold of pure Goji Berry fruits which is why the health drink, Exfuze has taken the hard work out of finding the best and purest Goji Berries and fused them with other miracle foods to give you the healthiest tonic on the market today.

Goji berries are known by a variety of other names- wolfberries, Chinese wolfberries, mede berries, bocksdorn, etc. The berries are the fruits of either of two closely related plants: Lycium barbarum and Lycium chinense. They are reddish-orange in colour and ripen in the period between July and October in the Northern Hemisphere. The plant is native to Asia and southeastern Europe. Goji berries are specially known for their nutrient value and high content of antioxidants. Goji berries are used most often in their dried form- as food, as part of beverages like wine, tea and coffee, and in soups.

Goji berry, also known as wolfberry in Western countries, is one of the most obscure, yet very useful and beneficial fruits known to mankind. The plant is considered near the characteristics of the species that include tomato, chili pepper, eggplant and potato. Goji berry was originally native to the small communities in southwest Asia, southeastern Europe and China. Nowadays, the plant is being cultivated in many parts of the world. And there are good reasons why.

Goji berry is undoubtedly one of the most important and useful plants ever cultivated in China. Ancient Chinese medicine practitioners had acknowledged the plant’s medicinal and treatment potential by using it in many Chinese herbal medicine products. To date, many Chinese medicinal goods are still containing the basic ingredients from Goji berry. The plant, also known as Wolfberry specifically in Western nations, is also widely cultivated across the globe because of its known health benefits.

Goji Berries might be better known as the wolfberry, whose plant is distinctly related to tobacco, chili pepper, deadly nightshade, eggplant, tomato, and the potato plants. The US Department of Agriculture Germplasm Resources Information Network also classifies Goji Berries as the plants known as matrimony vine, Duke of Argyll?s tea tree, cambronera, bocksdorn, Barbary matrimony vine, and the Chinese wolfberry.

More and more people these days are becoming conscious about their health and body. With a little inspiration from their Hollywood idols, many men and women in the US and around the globe are leaving no stones unturned just to find foods, products or supplements that will help maintain a healthy body, a beautiful and clear skin, and, if possible, an active sex life.

Goji berries or Tibetan Goji berries are technically known as Lycium Barabarum (Latin). They belong to the family of Solanaceae (flowering plants) which also have members like potatoes, tomatoes and tobacco. It is quite surprising to know that over eighty varieties of Lycium berry are found in nature. One of the most famous include the Chinese Wolfberry which is considered by Chinese healers as the best cure for male sexual dysfunction. But to be on a more technical ground, Chinese Wolfberry is just a genetic cousin of Lycium Barbarum and is not exactly a true Goji berry.

Very high in vitamin C. According to my gardening catalogue they are easy to grow, they fruit in their second year. No information on the prep/site/ & care of this plant. Advice greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

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