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Article: Healthy respect Goji berries gain in popularity
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2009
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Peruse the shelves of a grocery store and you will find cereal
that contains goji berries, energy drinks made from goji berries,
goji berry supplements, and straight-up bags of goji berries.
Shriveled and small, the pink of pencil erasers, goji has been
anointed a "superfood," one in a line of fruits touted for their
health-boosting powers: the acai berry, the pomegranate, the
mangosteen, Tahitian noni. It has a sweet-tart flavor, like a golden
raisin crossed with a rosehip and steeped in hibiscus tea. Goji
berries can be eaten out of hand like hard, leathery raisins, or
used in baking, as you would dried cranberries.
Google "goji" and you'll find the fruit praised, often by people
who are ...