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Chinese\u00a0people still consider goji berries as tonics such as goji berry tea, wine or soup, but foreigners have already turned them into star foods.\u00a0Foreigners have various ways to eat goji berries like making salads, cakes or\u00a0fried rice. The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>from\u00a0Britain\u00a0recently made a special report for\u00a0goji berry, and said that,\u00a0as a traditional Chinese medicine, goji berry\u00a0was praised by\u00a0many western gourmets.<\/span><\/p>\n “The red fruit\u00a0tasted\u00a0like\u00a0cranberry comes from china.”\u00a0Early in 2012, the American media\u00a0introduced goji berry\u00a0with a cookbook. The author mentioned that goji berry is\u00a0rich in vitamin C, vitamin E,\u00a0which\u00a0can accelerate metabolism.\u00a0Therefore, goji berry\u00a0has become fashionable and healthy in a wink, and it has been added into fruit salad and summer drinks.\u00a0Many foreigners also take goji berries as tonics,\u00a0British Internet users\u00a0create goji berry masks because they deem that it can detoxify and\u00a0moisturize\u00a0the skin.<\/span><\/p>\n Unlike foreigner’s fanatical love, as for\u00a0Chinese\u00a0people, goji berry is just a common food.\u00a0Few people realize that goji berry has\u00a0a long history of medicinal herbs\u00a0since ancient times.\u00a0Shen Nong’s\u00a0Herbal\u00a0Classic,<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0Chinese medical texts, mentioned that the major functions of goji berry are cleaning up pathogenic factors in the body and\u00a0stimulating\u00a0metabolism, taking goji berries for a long time can help people to improve fitness, prevent aging, resist cold and heat.\u00a0The book,\u00a0Explaining\u00a0Abstruseness of\u00a0The\u00a0Canon of Materia\u00a0Medica,\u00a0<\/em>from\u00a0the Ming dynasty\u00a0mentioned that goji berries can nourish the kidney and strengthen the essence, improve fitness,\u00a0quench thirst, and can cure the blurred vision and the\u00a0knee pain.\u00a0Li Guohui, a director\u00a0of pharmacy\u00a0from Tumor Hospital of the\u00a0Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said that the most popular kind of goji berry in the world is that of\u00a0chinese Pharmacopoeia,<\/em>\u00a0goji berry is\u00a0dried ripe fruit\u00a0of\u00a0nightshade\u00a0in Ningxia, it has the functions of\u00a0nourishing\u00a0the kidney,\u00a0strengthening\u00a0the essence\u00a0and improving eyesight, it has been used for more than 2000 years in our country,\u00a0and it is known as the genuine medicinal materials.\u00a0Goji berry is not only a herb, but also\u00a0a popular food to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Wang Yu, the director of\u00a0nutrition and health research center\u00a0from\u00a0Lanzhou University\u00a0provides\u00a0a set of data\u00a0which shows that our\u00a0Chinese\u00a0goji berries (including dried goji berries, fresh goji berries and goji berry powder) has been exported\u00a09 million 790 thousand\u00a0kilograms\u00a0in 2015, and the amount is 107 million dollars,\u00a0the price is 10.98 dollars per kilogram\u00a0on average.\u00a0The largest export\u00a0areas are\u00a0Holland, the United States,\u00a0and\u00a0Hongkong.\u00a0Due to the strong ability to adapt to the environment,\u00a0goji berries are\u00a0widely distributed in china, especially in Ningxia and\u00a0in Northwest china.\u00a0There are about 80 kinds of goji berries in\u00a0America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, southern Africa and the Pacific islands, and most kinds of goji berries are in\u00a0South America, which are\u00a0more than 30 species.<\/span><\/p>\n