Goji Juice Introduction

Goji (Lycium barbarum - Latin).fruit of the native goji vine, which had been
While it has occupied an important place inflourishing in the Himalayan valleys since the
traditional Asian medicine for countlessbeginning of time. Those who came there to learn
generations, the secrets of its nutritional benefitstook the goji home with them and planted it in
have remained a mystery to most of the world.their own valleys, thus spreading the legend of
Through the ages, legends abound about thisthis most marvelous and healthful fruit.
miraculous fruit, the goji berry. There are festivalsThe people of Central Asia who love and cherish
held to celebrate its goodness, and a poem wasthese goji berries so much that they devote two
written in its honor.weeks every year to festivals in their honor.
During the Tang Dynasty (around 800 AD), a wellScientists realized four primary bioactive
had been dug beside a wall near a famouspolysaccharides were discovered in Lycium
Buddhist temple that was covered with goji vines.barbarum. They named them Lycium barbarum
Over the years, countless berries had fallen intopolysaccharides (LBP).
the well. Those who prayed there had the ruddyResearch suggests that goji's unique
complexion of good health, and even at the agepolysaccharides control and command many of
of eighty they had no white hair and had lost nothe body's most important biochemical defense
teeth, simply because they drank the water fromsystems.
the well.Since its discovery in the Himalayas, those who
It is said that the Himalayans were the firstknow of the remarkable goji berry are awed by
natural healers, and that they shared their wisdomits unmatched health-promoting powers.
with the ancient herbalists of China, Tibet, andThis tiny fruit revealed itself to be quite possibly
India. One of their most prized secrets was thethe most nutritionally dense food on earth!