Modernization Of Agricultural Machinery To Promote The Production Of Chinese Goji Berry

China Ningxia Academy of Agricultural Sciences National wolfberry Engineering Technology Research Center led research and development team, through field trial and summary, has developed 10 large-scale, intelligent and automatic wolfberry planting machine, key production equipment covering the production of Chinese wolfberry planting, fertilizing, weeding, pest chase, to achieve a high degree of integration of agricultural machinery and agricultural production. According to the director of the center, Cao Youlong, the R & D team’s first stage of research and development of the machinery, has declared 7 national invention patents, more than 10 utility model patents. Field experiments showed that the development and application of wolfberry series special machinery greatly improved the mechanization operation level of wolfberry production, and the field operation efficiency increased by 30%-50%. Next, we will combine domestic and foreign R & D team to focus on the development of wolfberry and fresh fruit automatic picking machine, wolfberry trimmer, medlar seedling machine, wolfberry planting machine and other special machinery, and strive to make special machinery to cover the whole field of wolfberry production.

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Goji berry contains carotene, betaine, vitamin A, vitamin B1. Vitamin B2. Vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus, iron, and so on, have the following effect:

1, Nourishing kidney yin, Qi and soothe the nerves, physical fitness, kidney essence, Liver eyesight, lungs and fluid etc..

2,To improve the immune function of the body, it can supplement qi and concentrate the liver, nourish the liver and kidney, resist aging, stop thirst, warm the body and anti tumor effect.

3, reducing blood pressure, blood lipid and blood sugar, can prevent the atherosclerosis like atherosclerosis, protect the liver, inhibit fatty liver, and promote the regeneration of liver cells.

4, the ancient physicians treating liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency, blurred vision and night blindness caused by deficiency, often use the fruit of Goji berry, famous prescription of Qijudihuang pills, on the main drug medlar. The public also conventional treatment of chronic eye disease medlar, medlar steaming is a simple and effective therapeutic side.

The way and time to eat Goji berry is much more exquisite. So, when is the best to eat Goji berry? How much do you eat every day? The following is available for reference.

1, gout patients eat two Goji berry every day, 50-80 grains each time, every morning and evening to eat each time, the best in the evening before bedtime eat;

2, normal people eat every day, 50-80 grains each time, eat before bedtime;

3, the amount of food to eat in principle, age most eat, age small eat less.

4, You can do it with blisters or chewing. It’s better not to cook it.

 Warm reminder: after forty years old, we should start eating goji berry. As long as we can ensure that some goji berry can be guaranteed every day, the disease will be greatly reduced, and eating goji berry can prolong life.

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Drying Process Of Goji Berry

The fruit of goji berry is ripe in 6~11 months. The fruit can be picked when the fruit turns from green to red and the flesh is slightly spongy. If premature pick, the fruit is not full, dry color is darker; if too late picking, sugar is too large and easy to fall off, after drying the color is darker, affecting the appearance. Picking fruits should be carried out after 10 in the morning. Don’t pick them after rain. Take them lightly when you pick them, and pick them together with the fruit handles. Otherwise, the juice will affect the quality of the outflow.

The drying process of goji berry is divided into three stages

The first stage is the rising speed drying stage. Dry room temperature up to 35 DEG -40 DEG, circulating wind speed 2.3 m / s, air fresh water evaporation to make the diffusion free state quickly, especially the pericarp water loss reached 50%, skin wrinkles, structure of water pulp began to slowly seeping from the cortex of stomata, fruit sugar concentration increased, the inhibition of enzyme activation the activity of protection the main components of polysaccharide, vitamins, amino acids, especially the protection of the red pigment is good. Dry fruit has a beautiful color.

The second stage is the constant speed drying stage. Due to water leakage in the fresh fruit, non binding water gathered sufficient peel, this is because the surface of the water vapor pressure and temperature pressure is basically the same, the internal moisture quickly moved to the surface of the fruit compression in order to meet the needs of skin moisture vaporization. When the water loss rate of fruit reached nearly 50%, the indoor temperature rose to 50 -55, and the cycling speed decreased. The less water contained, the shorter the dehydration time. A large number of dehydration, so that the shape of the fruit shrink, half dry state, this period weighing, measuring water, fruit containing about 30% of water.

The third stage is slow down drying stage. When the fruit is cut down to about 30%, the thermal conductivity of fruit becomes small, inside and outside temperature increases, when the indoor hot air to reach 55 degrees -60 degrees, because the fruit in less moisture, moisture migration rate of evaporation decreased, water exudation is slow, so the need for a time to slow discharge.

A common phenomenon is the fruit of Goji berry fruit drying the moisture diffusion surface is greater than the internal diffusion rate, fruit containing free water leakage rate is greater than the structure of water leakage rate, this is because the Goji berry fresh high fructose dehydration leads to difficulties. If the temperature is too high, the surface water of fresh loss too fast, and water and fruit extravasation for not up, then the skin will bubble, blocking the drain holes, but the fruit in water can not discharge, the decoloration, decrease the quality of cortex has. So the first fruit surface grease maceration, suitable temperature and wind speed plus in dehydrated skin at the same time through holes penetrate fruit temperature inside the fruit, to discharge the water, so as to speed up the drying speed and drying quality assurance.

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2017 China • Ningxia Goji Berry London Promotion Was Successfully Held

September 3 “2017 London Quality Food Show” held in London Olympic Convention Center. The exhibition is organized by the British Mongolian Margaux Exhibition Group, which is Britain’s largest and most comprehensive food and beverage industry event, has been successfully held for 17 years. China’s seven goji berry companies participated in this world-class exhibition event, and held in the exhibition site “2017 China • Ningxia goji berry London promotion”, with the London international metropolis platform to promote Ningxia goji berry. For the Ningxia goji berry enterprises and London local food agents and supermarket buyers matchmaking, expand the international market, promote international trade, and further expand the Chinese goji berry in foreign influence and visibility.

In the promotion meeting, the Chinese delegate Xu Qinglin made the “Ningxia goji berry and the people health new life” theme promotion, the British five-star hotel Ritz-Carlton manager, Chinese food gourmet, Chinese Chamber of Commerce representative Li Jianxun welcome speech, part of the Chinese company representatives Site promotion. London local business, wholesale market, distribution center and other business representatives and the news media more than 30 people participated in the promotion. Participants at the scene watched the Ningxia goji berry propaganda film, tasting the magic of the East super fruit. They have a great interest in Ningxia goji berry, exchange of contact information, and actively take the initiative to start trade negotiations, the specific content of the cooperation were negotiated. The atmosphere was warm and orderly.

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LYCIUM BARBARUM (GOJI BERRY) AND ITS EFFECTS IN HEALTH

Marcela Bueno1, Mariana Ricci Barion1, Sandra Maria Barbalho*1,2, Élen Landgraf Guiuer1,2

¹Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Marília, Av. Higino Muzzi Filho 1001, Marí lia 15525- 902, SP, Brazil.

²Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, Faculty of Food Technology of Marília (FATEC), Av. Castro Alves, 62, Marília 17506- 000, SP, Brazil.

ABSTRACT

Lycium barbarum or goji berry (or wolfberry) is a plant popularly known for its benefits to the health, including hypoglicemic effects, body weight control and as anti – cancer. The purpose of this review was to investigate the properties and medicinal applications of L.barbarum. Although there are still many characteristics that need to be studied about this plant, several benefic effects have been reported. Literature shows that there are several compounds in g ojy berry that may prevent oxidant and inflammatory process, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia and obesity. We suggest that this plant should be more researched in order to evaluate the possibility of application in the pharmaceutical industry and to obtain enough information to consider validation for its medicinal use.

KEYWORDS: Lycium barbarum, oxidative stress, inflammation, weight control, hyperglycemia.

*This is a literature on the study of goji berry and antioxidants . You can click here to read the full text.

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Preventive effects of Goji berry on dextran-sulfate-sodium-induced colitis in mice

Kang Y¹, Xue Y¹, Du M², Zhu MJ³.

Abstract

Goji berry (Lycium barbarum) exerts immune modulation and suppresses inflammation in vitro and in vivo. We hypothesized that Goji berry had beneficial effects on dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis in C57BL/6 mice through suppressing inflammation. Six-week-old male C57BL/6 mice were supplemented with a standard AIN-93G diet with or without 1% (w/w) Goji berry for 4 weeks. Then, colitis was induced by supplementing 3% DSS in drinking water for 7 days, followed by 7 days of remission period to mimic ulcerative colitis symptoms. Goji berry supplementation ameliorated DSS-induced body weight loss, diminished diarrhea and gross bleeding, and resulted in a significantly decreased disease activity index, as well as DSS-associated colon shortening. Moreover, 30% mortality rate caused by DSS-induced colitis was avoided because of Goji berry supplementation. Histologically, Goji berry ameliorated colonic edema, mucosal damage and neutrophil infiltration into colonic intestinal tissue in response to DSS challenge, which was associated with decreased expression of chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 1 and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, as well as inflammatory mediators interleukin-6 and cyclooxygenase-2. In conclusion, Goji supplementation confers protective effects against DSS-induced colitis, which is associated with decreased neutrophil infiltration and suppressed inflammation. Thus, dietary Goji is likely beneficial to inflammatory bowel disease patients as a complementary therapeutic strategy.

KEYWORDS:

DSS; Epithelium; Goji berry; Gut; Inflammation; Inflammatory bowel disease

*This is a literature on the study of goji berry and antioxidants . You can click here to read the full text.

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The protective effect of goji berry extract in ischemic reperfusion in testis torsion

Recep Dursun1 , Yılmaz Zengin1 , Ercan Gündüz1 , Mustafa İçer1 , Hasan Mansur Durgun1 , Mansur Dağgulli2 , İbrahim Kaplan3 , Ulaş Alabalık4 , Cahfer Güloğlu1 Departments of 1Emergency Medicine, 2Urology, 3Biochemistry, 4Pathology, Medical Faculty, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey Received October 14, 2014; Accepted January 21, 2015; Epub February 15, 2015; Published February 28, 2015

Abstract: This study investigated whether goji berry extract (GBE), a known antioxidant, reduces ischemic reperfusion injury when administered to rats exposed to experimental testis torsion. A total of 32 Sprague-Dawley male rats were randomized into 4 groups, including the control (sham), goji, torsion, and torsion-goji groups. The treatment groups received intraperitoneal GBE prior to torsion. The left testes of the animals were subjected to torsion via 5 hours of ischemia and 6 hours of reperfusion. TAC (total antioxidant capacity), TOS (total oxidant status) and OSI (oxidative stress index) levels were calculated. Approximately 5-μm-thick sections were stained with hematoxylineosin (H&E) and examined under a light microscope. Statistical analyses were performed with the SPSS 15 software package. The mean serum TAC level was significantly increased in Groups 2 and 4 compared with Groups 1 and 3 in biochemical analyses (for both P < 0.001). The mean serum TOS level was significantly increased in Group 3 compared with Groups 1, 2, and 4 (P < 0.001, P < 0.001, and P = 0.003, respectively). Comparison of the groups with regard to histopathological examination revealed that Group 4 exhibited a significantly higher rate of hemorrhage and congestion compared with Groups 1 and 2 (P = 0.038). The groups did not differ significantly with respect to degeneration. Ischemic reperfusion injury associated with testis torsion was reduced by the antioxidant effect of GBE. Further experimental and clinical studies are needed to confirm the agent’s efficacy for this indication.

Keywords: Antioxidant, lycium, goji berry extract, testis torsion

*This is a literature on the study of goji berry and antioxidants . You can click here to read the full text.

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Goji Berry (Lycium barbarum): Composition and Health Effects – a Review

Bartosz Kulczyński*, Anna Gramza-Michałowska Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 31, 60–624 Poznań, Poland

Key words: goji berries, Lycium barbarum, bioactive compounds, antioxidants, polyphenols, health benefits

Abstract

Goji berries contain many nutrients and bioactive compounds which allowed to classify them as superfruits. A short description of the fruits is presented together with cultivation requirements. The chemical composition of the berries and their health-promoting properties are described later in this literature review. Based on the available data, their potentially beneficial application in dietary prevention of diseases of affluence, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer, is elaborated. We also refer to the safety of Goji consumption in the context of ingredients potentially harmful for human health, allergic reactions and the interactions with other substances.

Conclusions

Goji berry is well-known in traditional Chinese medicine and has been utilized as an important element of a health-promoting diet for hundreds of years. Recently, there has been rapidly growing attention surrounding goji berries in the Western world. Health food stores provide a rich variety of Goji products, such as dried fruits, tea, beer, juice, sweets, musli and supplements. L. barbarum is a plant that could be cultivated in Europe. The main aim of this review was to gather and present state of the art data regarding the health-promoting properties of Goji fruits. Goji berry is a source of many bioactive compounds, characterized by high antioxidant potential. Goji fruits with a wide spectrum of biological effects have numerous implied health effects. Wolfberry may be an effective supplement in prophylaxis of diseases of affluence, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Goji is a safe food supplement, free from toxins; however, it can cause allergies; thus, the risks should be taken into consideration in individuals with food allergies, due to the high degree of cross-reactivity between wolfberry and peach and tomato. On the grounds of harmful herb-drug interactions that enhance drug performance, an anticoagulation therapy (warfarin) is a contra-indication to use Goji berry and any product containing wolfberry. The majority of published studies have used animal models in experiments. The results have been very optimistic and promising. However, additional research must be done with a greater number of experiments involving a larger number of animals, as well as experiments involving human subjects.

* This is a literature on the study of goji berry and antioxidants . You can click here to read the full text.

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Probable Interaction Between Lycium barbarum (Goji) and Warfarin

Authors
Claudio A. Rivera M.D., M.P.H.,
Carol L. Ferro M.D., M.P.H.,
Adam J. Bursua Pharm.D.,
Ben S. Gerber M.D., M.P.H

Abstract

Lycium barbarum (also called goji berry), a Chinese herb used as a supplement for health benefits, is traditionally consumed by the Chinese in the form of a tea. Goji juice, a widely available beverage in the United States, also contains this herb. We describe a 71-year-old Ecuadorean-American woman who was taking warfarin and was hospitalized for a markedly elevated, indeterminate international normalized ratio (INR) (prothrombin time > 120 sec) after consumption of goji juice. She had undergone knee surgery approximately 3 months earlier at which time warfarin therapy was started. She reported no changes in dietary habits or lifestyle other than drinking goji juice for 4 days before hospitalization. On presentation to the emergency department, she described symptoms of epistaxis, bruising, and rectal bleeding. After discontinuation of the goji juice and warfarin, the patient was treated with phytonadione, and her INR decreased to 2.6 over 2 days. Application of the Naranjo adverse drug reaction probability scale indicated a probable relationship (score of 6) between the patient’s elevated INR with associated bleeding and her concomitant use of L. barbarum and warfarin. Two other published reports have described similar interactions between warfarin and a tea containing L. barbarum. Patients should be educated about avoiding popular herbal drinks, such as goji juice, that contain L. barbarum while they are taking warfarin. In addition, clinicians should question patients about their use of herbal therapies and document such use in their medical records before prescribing drugs such as warfarin.

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High glucose-induced barrier impairment of human retinal pigment epithelium is ameliorated by treatment with Goji berry extracts through modulation of cAMP levels

BarbaraPavan, AntonioCapuzzo, GiuseppeForlani

Highlights

High glucose impairs tight junctions of human retinal pigment epithelial cells.
High glucose elevates intracellular cAMP levels in HRPE cells.
Barrier impairment correlates with cAMP accumulation in HRPE cells.
High glucose directly activates the intracellular soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC).
Goji berry extract and taurine reverse high glucose/sAC/cAMP disrupting barrier.

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M.K.Song, N.K.Salam, Basil D.Roufogalis, T.H.W.Huang 

Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Received 17 May 2011, Accepted 20 July 2011, Available online 27 July 2011.

Abstract

The peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) is involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is a preventable microvascular diabetic complication that damages human retinal pigment epithelial cells. Taurine is abundant in the fruit of Lycium barbarum (Goji Berry), and is reportedly beneficial for diabetic retinopathy. However, the mechanism of its action is unknown. Hence, we have investigated the mechanism of action of an extract from L. barbarum on a model of diabetic retinopathy, the retinal ARPE-19 cell line, and identified the receptor function of taurine, an active component of L. barbarum (Goji Berry) extract, which is potentially responsible for the protective effect on diabetic retinopathy. We demonstrate for the first time that L. barbarum extract and its taurine component dose-dependently enhance PPAR-γ luciferase activity in HEK293 cell line transfected with PPAR-γ reporter gene. This activity was significantly decreased by a selective PPAR-γ antagonist GW9662. Moreover, L. barbarum extract and taurine dose-dependently enhanced the expression of PPAR-γ mRNA and protein. In an inflammation model where ARPE-19 cells were exposed to high glucose L. barbarum extract and taurine down-regulated the mRNA of pro-inflammatory mediators encoding MMP-9, fibronectin and the protein expression of COX-2 and iNOS proteins. The predicted binding mode of taurine in the PPAR-γ ligand binding site mimics key electrostatic interactions seen with known PPAR-γ agonists. We conclude that PPAR-γ activation by L. barbarum extract is associated with its taurine content and may explain at least in part its use in diabetic retinopathy progression.

Graphical abstract

Abbreviations
PPAR-γ, peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ; LB, fruit from Lycium barbarum; RT-PCR, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; HEK, human embryonic kidney; ARPE-19, human retinal epithelial cell line; DR, diabetic retinopathy; RG, rosiglitazone; PG, 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-prostaglandin J2;

Keywords

Taurine
Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ
Diabetic retinopathy
Human retinal pigment epithelial cell

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