Goji Berries are becoming more and more popular in the world herbal healthcare market. You can get pure and good quality Goji Berries which can provide you a number of benefits ranging from helping you control your weight to improving your sex life.

Goji Berries are grown in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. The United States Department of Agriculture Germplasm Resources Information Network informs us that other names of Goji Berries are:

1. Chinese wolfberry or simply wolfberry,
2. Barbary matrimony vine or simply matrimony vine,
3. Bocksdorn,
4. Cambronera etc

If you are in the United Kingdom, you might have heard of the Duke of Argyll’s tea tree. It is Goji Berry plant. The third Duke of Argyll, Archibald Campbell introduced the United Kingdom to the multi-beneficial plant of Goji Berries. The Duke mainly used the plant for flavoring tea. Today Goji Berries have become increasingly used for healthcare and culinary purposes.

Goji Berries are ellipsoid in shape. The berries are 1-2 cm in length. The color of Berries is bright red. Goji Berries have seeds in them the number of seeds can range anywhere between 10 to 60. These seeds are of yellow color. Just like a tomato where the peel is bright red and seeds are yellow.

But this is not where the similarities between tomato and Goji Berries end. Just like tomatoes, Goji Berries are also a rich source of Vitamin C. In fact the quantity of Vitamin C in Goji Berries can range anywhere between 29mg to 149mg in every 100 grams of dried Goji Berries. This makes for a minimum of 32% of required Vitamin C input to a maximum being as high as 163%. Other nutrients in Goji Berries are:
112mg calcium
1,132mg potassium
9mg iron
2mg Zinc
50 micro grams Selenium
1.3mg of Vitamin B2

All these nutrients are available in 100gm of Goji Berries. Thus you can see that a regular and balanced consumption of Goji Berries and other Goji Products like Goji Juice can be very beneficial even if you do not consume a very healthy diet. If you take Goji products on a proper basis, you can easily carry on eating what you like without having to bother about gaining weight or malnutrition.

For more information about Goji Berries please point your browser to www.gojiberries.us. You can find a variety of Goji products at prices that deliver the best value for your money.