Recently I have seen and heard a lot about the Goji berry. My mother buys them in bulk in China town and she eats them raw like candy, and even puts them into her tea and oatmeal. So I was a bit curious to try them and see what all the hype was all about. I hate raisins and they kind of reminded me of them, well at least their appearance. The taste however, is similar in taste to raisins but tarter. My overall evaluation was, tastes all right but is it worth eating them morning, day and night?

Goji berries have been hailed as the newest super food, however where did they come from? They seem to have sprung up from nowhere! When a product just appears on the market and gets so much hype, I immediately think, “Yeah just another marketing ploy.”

So I decided to Google them and learn a bit about them. The Chinese have been using these little red berries for thousands of years. So in actuality they are not new, however just new to western culture. They have inspired a surge of interest for their use in treating diabetes, hypertension, malaria, fever, cancer and other ailments. They have high antioxidant properties, higher than the pomegranate, blueberries, and grapes. Antioxidants help your body get rid of free radicals which cause cancer and many other unpleasant things.

Well that’s enough for me, they sound great, however they are not cheap like raisins.