There’s a berry growing in monastery gardens across the Himalayas that contains 34 essential vitamins and minerals. It has the highest antioxidant rating ever measured—an ORAC score of 25,000, five times higher than blueberries. Traditional Chinese medicine documented it 3,000 years ago as the longevity fruit. Tibetan monks claimed it extended lifespan beyond 250 years. Modern science confirmed compounds that may slow cellular aging.
The plant is a perennial shrub that produces fruit for 50+ years, survives from negative 15 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and propagates freely from cuttings. In 2003, companies began selling goji juice for $40 per liter. By 2006, the FDA banned health claims about it. Today, dried goji berries cost $25 per pound at Whole Foods, imported from China. The fresh fruit? Essentially unavailable in American supermarkets. The plant? Absent from garden centers. It’s called goji, or wolfberry. Chinese immigrants never stopped growing it. Americans were taught to buy the supplement. The question isn’t why the fruit disappeared. The question is who profits from you not knowing it grows in your backyard.
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