£5 pack of Goji berries when you buy 70p newspaper

I nearly bought some of these in the Julian Graves half price sale. According to their packaging you can add 20 berries to one Litre of boiling water and leave for a few minutes for a refreshing drink.

paper on a saturday is only 35pence at debenhams

I remember these as a kid ! My mum puts them in our soup and I fished them out with my chopsticks.

Check your local Chinese supermarket if you have one, they are much cheaper there then Holland and Barrett !

Goji berries are apparently part of the wolfberry family with similar flavour and function. About as useful as dangleberries tbh.



Organochlorine pesticides are conventionally used in commercial wolfberry cultivation to mitigate destruction of the delicate berries by insects. Since the early 21st century, high levels of pyrethroid insecticide residues (including fenvalerate and cypermethrin) and fungicide residues (such as triadimenol), have been detected by the United States Food and Drug Administration in some imported wolfberries and wolfberry products of Chinese origin, leading to the seizure of these products.[22] Due to the demand for organic products in the West, some Chinese growers are beginning to experiment with integrated pest management and to explore the possibility of obtaining organic certification, something that has not yet been publicly disclosed for Chinese wolfberry farms and products.
Some Western resellers may state that their wolfberries are organically grown when in fact they are not. The Green Certificate claimed by some wolfberry marketers to be the equivalent of the United States Department of Agriculture's "USDA Organic" seal[23] is in actuality simply an agricultural training program for China's rural poor.[24] China's Green Food Standard,[25] administered by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture's China Green Food Development Center, does permit some amount of pesticide and herbicide use.[26][27][28]
Despite some claims that wolfberries sold in Europe, the United States, and Canada meet organic standardsI][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"]citation needed[/URL][/I, there is no public evidence for standardized organic certification of wolfberries from the Asian regions where they are commercially grown. Often, these berries are marketed as Tibetan or Himalayan Goji Berries that have been "wild crafted" or "wild harvested". On the contrary, however, Tibet's agriculture conventionally uses fertilizers and pesticides, and neither wolfberries ("goji") of Tibetan or Himalayan origin sold outside Tibet nor organic certification of such berries have been proved

Got goji berreis in Holland and Barratt a while ago at 70% off and they are awful!! Even is you soak them for hours they still taste like hard chewy eerrggh - nothing at all like dried cranberries (which I think are lovely)

But if you do want to try them them this is a good deal!!!