Goji Products

You likely wouldn't be reading this website if you didn't already know that Goji berries are extremely powerful sources of vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and antioxidants. But did you also know that in the very few short years since they were first imported to the US, the US Food and Drug Administration recognizes them among the planet's very most valuable single sources of Antioxidants? It's hard to believe, but it's true. Even as recently as 1996, Goji berries had not even been sold outside of Asia at all.

Meanwhile, in the Ningxia province of northern China, where all of the most potent Goji is grown, the number of people over 100 years of age outnumbers the rest of China by 20 TIMES! In fact, some of the elders there are still working their daily jobs at 100 years of age, and a few of them have lived beyond 120!

So how can such an incredible food source be kept secret so long?

Shhhh, It's an ancient Chinese secret! Quite literally, it's been in Chinese medical journals and remedies since long before Christ was born, but a sense of national pride has kept the Chinese from letting foreigners know about their "Secret weapon" until recently.

Very recently, in fact. A US doctor by the name of Gary Young was the first person on record to import a large quantity of Ningxia Goji (The most potent variety) into the US, and that was only in 1996.

Soon afterwards an Olympic Swimmer for China, named Wu Yanyan, started breaking world records at the Chinese national games, crediting mainly a new diet of wolfberries & boiled walnuts for her performance boost. She was in fact forced to 'spill the beans' because of all the scrutiny on Asian teams using illegal performance-enhancing drugs at the time. (Which she tested, without a doubt, negative for.)

Not long after the word hit the rest of the world that Wolfberries were 'the new fountain of youth,' companies came out of the woodwork to start selling these tart little dried-up berries (which look just like red raisins) to consumers worldwide.

However, the potency of the nutrients and antioxidants in these berries vary greatly and very few (if any) are directly from the Ningxia province.

Soon many companies throughout the world were exporting Goji, but since there are 7 different species of the Goji plant and even three different grades of the Ningxia Goji Berry, not many high-quality Goji berries ever made it out of China.

Worse yet, a few unscrupulous companies that have recently been marketing Goji products in the United States (at least) are even misrepresenting where they came from!

If you have ever heard of Goji berries from Tibet or the Himalayas, you have been lied to. Goji Plants can only grow in warm, low-lying regions like the Ningxia province, Meanwhile Tibet and the entire Himalayan region are both at very high altitudes, with temperatures that are completely unsuitable for growing all species of Goji. It would be like trying to grow a coconut tree in Aspen, Colorado.

Today, your best bet of getting your hands on high-quality, high-grade Goji berries is to travel to China. Many cities throughout Asia, even in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, stock Ningxia Goji berries in one or more forms because of their large Chinese populations.

Sadly, there is no official certification in other countries as of yet for declaring the quality and origins of Goji. Only the Ningxia "Green Certification" says if it was even grown in the province or not, and naturally, not all Goji will come with that certification, especially when they were not grown there.

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