How Much Does Black Goji Berry Cost Per Jin? 4 Tricks to Tell the King of Anthocyanins Apart from Fakes

Everyone knows that black goji berry is a good thing. It is not only rich in nutrients, but also has effects such as anti-aging, beauty and skin care, calming the nerves and aiding sleep, and protecting the eyes and improving vision. Black goji berry mainly grows in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and other places, and is generally used to make tea. So how much does black goji berry cost per jin? How can you tell real from fake?

I. Introduction to Black Goji Berry

1. Black goji berry, also known as Su goji berry and Gan goji berry, belongs to the genus Lycium in the nightshade family. It was first discovered in Qinghai, and was later found successively in Xinjiang, Dunhuang in Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and other places. With the continuous improvement of cultivation techniques, black goji berries from all producing areas are now sold on the market, but wild black goji berry from Qinghai is the highest quality. Black goji berry is rich in anthocyanins and has the reputation of “king of anthocyanins”. Anthocyanins can prevent the early formation of skin wrinkles, so regular consumption of black goji berry has a certain effect against aging.

2. Black goji berry is distributed in alpine sandy forests, salinized sandy land, along rivers and lakes, dry riverbeds and desert riparian forests. It is drought-tolerant, cold-tolerant and salt-alkali-tolerant, can endure high temperatures of 38.5 degrees, and grows well in areas where the extreme winter temperature is minus 28 degrees. Today it is mainly distributed in Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places in China as well as Europe and Central Asia.

II. How Much Does Black Goji Berry Cost Per Jin?

The market price of black goji berry varies widely. Prices differ according to factors such as place of origin, whether it is wild, and berry size. Compared with red goji berry planted on a large scale, wild black goji berry has lower yield and higher harvesting costs, so its price is more expensive than red goji berry. As for the price of black goji berry, let us first see how netizens answered:

1. A Baidu user answered: Wild black goji berry has been heavily hyped in recent years, to the point that cultivated black goji berry is passed off as wild black goji berry. In the black goji berry market in Golmud, truly wild black goji berry is only around 500-800 yuan per jin.

2. Netizen hxiaoyan5 answered: Better varieties are generally more than 200 per jin. So-called wild black goji berry is too scarce, and you cannot buy it either. Do not listen to others' tricks.

3. Netizen Changbian Wudi Zhen Jiuxiao answered: 890 yuan per jin.

According to netizens' accounts, the retail price of wild black goji berry is generally more than 400 yuan, while cultivated black goji berry is cheaper at dozens to around 100 yuan. The main producing areas of black goji berry include Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and other places. If we want to buy better black goji berry, we can go to the place of origin to buy it, or ask friends to bring it back from the place of origin.

III. How to Tell Real Black Goji Berry from Fake?

Black goji berry is expensive, and many unscrupulous traders dye white thorn fruit, blueberry fruit or other similar fruits to pass them off as black goji berry. So how can you tell real black goji berry from fake? The editor will teach you a few tricks for quick identification.

First trick: Look

Observe the fruit stalk of the black goji berry. Generally, the fruit stalk of black goji berry is grayish white. If there is a lot of rain during the growing period, the fruit stalk will be slightly stained, but if the color of the fruit stalk is too dark, there is a possibility that it has been dyed, and it needs careful identification.

Second trick: Pinch

Authentic black goji berry contains about ten small seeds inside, and the shape of the small seeds is fruit-like. After black goji berry is thoroughly dried, it turns into powder when pinched with the hand, while white thorn fruit, the main variety used as fake black goji berry, has a single pit and will not easily be crushed.

Third trick: Soak

When black goji berry is soaked in water, a “threading” phenomenon appears, and different water qualities also produce different colors. For example, soaking in acidic water (mineral water) turns it purple, while soaking in alkaline water (mountain spring water, tap water, etc.) turns it blue. This is because anthocyanin is a typical acid-base indicator and shows different colors at different pH values. Dyed black goji berry will not change color when brewed in different water qualities.

Fourth trick: Taste

There are many fake products on the market now, such as black-dyed goji berry. They look very similar and can hardly be distinguished, but the taste is different. Black-dyed goji berry has a high sugar content and tastes sweeter, while real black goji berry is sweet and astringent, but very natural.

Conclusion: That is all for the introduction to the price of black goji berry and how to identify it. We hope everyone can buy truly good-quality black goji berry. But the editor would like to say here that the effects of black goji berry may not actually be as exaggerated as claimed, and may only have some auxiliary effects, so everyone should be more rational when buying, and buy through regular channels.