Chinese wolfberry, as a long history of ingredients, has been deeply expected, such as bright eyes, aphrodisiac, blood tonic, longevity, lowering blood fat, nourishing the liver, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, treating dizziness, treating dizziness, curing cough ……
Not only do the national people like to use it to make wine, soup and dessert, but the wolfberry has even entered the European and American markets, becoming a mysterious oriental ingredient that leads the health trend.
Is the wolfberry really that amazing? Today and you talk about the goji berry trivia.
The main nutrition of wolfberry
As a popular dried fruit, the Goji berry is really no less nutritious.
It is not only rich in dietary fiber, vitamin A, iron and selenium, but also more protein, calcium, zinc, potassium and so on.
Using it as a snack is indeed much healthier than eating cookies and potato chips.
As for the origin and variety, in fact, there is no great influence on the nutrition of wolfberry, choose the qualified, look good on the line, do not have to struggle which one to buy.
It is said that wolfberry can brighten the eyes and replenish blood ……
It is said that there are simply too many things, we will take a few of the common to analyze.
Because of the relatively high content of vitamin A and lutein, so wolfberry can brighten the eyes.
Because it is red and contains iron, so wolfberry can replenish blood;
because of the polysaccharides and flavonoids, so wolfberry has a variety of health functions.
These claims seem to be particularly reasonable, but they do not stand up to scrutiny.
The so-called active ingredients have very limited effects.
These ingredients are not unique to the wolfberry.
The amount of goji berries eaten every day is too small.
Therefore, to rely on eating wolfberry to achieve bright eyes and blood, beauty, is not very realistic. Want to get the active ingredients, eat more fruits and vegetables also can, and the price is also cheap.
In short, wolfberry is a kind of taste good, but a little expensive dried fruit. Eat it if you like, don’t expect too much of those magical health benefits.
Are there dyed goji berries?
In order to meet the face of the market, there are indeed some sellers will be certain treatment of the color of the wolfberry. The most common is to use sulfur fumigation, but if the sulfur dioxide residue qualified, there is no problem.
As for other dyeing methods, such as alum or other water treatment, the reality is that they may indeed exist.
How to identify from the appearance?
I’m sorry to tell you that there is no good way. Because if you know a way to identify, the business will also know, and then will think of new ways to continue to cheat you.
Black goji berry is soft gold?
Goji berry has been too common, not rare, so these two years the businessmen began to speculate again the concept of black goji berry.
1, contains a variety of nutrients?
It is true. Black goji berry may indeed contain XX kinds of nutrients, but the roadside pull a handful of flowers and plants, after testing also have.
Moreover, it is meaningless to contain many kinds of nutrients or active ingredients, the amount is enough to be useful, otherwise it is a waste to eat.
2, anthocyanins have miraculous effects?
False.
Black wolfberry as so far found the highest original anthocyanin content of natural wild fruit, the price has been high.
Just do not question whether it is the highest, directly to the anthocyanin this component.
Anthocyanins are not necessarily effective. The various effects of anthocyanins are derived from “antioxidants”, not only is there no good data to support this, but some studies have even found that over pursuing antioxidants may be detrimental to health instead.
Anthocyanins are also found in other fruits and vegetables. If you just want anthocyanins, why not eat some eggplant, blueberries, red (purple) grapes, kale, purple corn and other blue and purple vegetables and fruits. Not only are they cheap, but you can easily eat a lot of them.
So, whether it’s for your health or your wallet, there’s absolutely no need to be obsessed with black goji berries ah.
So how exactly do you eat goji berries?
Not to deny the goji berry, after all, it is a dried fruit, nutritional value is still good. As a small snack to eat good, but do not expect it to help you cure.