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The best goji berries on the market
I've tried virtually every brand out there. These are the most tender and sweet. Many brands are very dried out and not very tasty.
Try these as a snack. If you take about half a cup a day, you will notice your libido goes nuts. You will also notice your energy is much better.
I had to cut down my consumption...
[Monday, December 08, 2008]
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Taste is just ok - more importantly, are they really organic?
Today I received my order of Goji berries - strangely, they were packaged inside another shipper that appeared to be direct from the distributor (Organic Nectars) - but they arrived in good order and as promised.
The taste of the berries straight out of the bag is somewhat unremarkable. The label states "sweet, chewy and fragrant" but I would just barely rank them with marks in any of those categories. At first I thought I was missing something - these little red nubs received great reviews on other sites and postings and I just didn't see what all the fuss was about.
I did a little digging on the internet and discovered that there is some grey area between a wolfberry (Chinese in origin) and the goji berry (Tibetan, purportedly), leading me to wonder which exactly these were? Also, neither Amazon nor the Organic Nectars site specifically promises that these berries are organic (another concern highlighted on other sites), even though the label indicates they were "grown and harvested in pesticide-free Tibetan valleys". I probably ate two handfuls of them and my lips were tingling; this often happens if I don't wash peaches or nectarines well enough before eating (two fruits rated very high on the Environmental Working Group's pesticide watch for produce). I didn't experience any other effects, adverse or beneficial although I read that goji berries contain a compound that can increase the risk of bleeding for folks who take warfarin or other blood thinners so please exercise mindful caution if you fall into that population before eating the berries or having them in other preparations.
I'll continue to eat them and will try some of the other suggested methods of preparation (tea, shakes, oatmeal) but I'm not sold on the idea of these as a "superfruit" or "superfood" just yet.
[Thursday, November 27, 2008]
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