It is very surprising that this small, red raisin sized fruit cost anywhere between $30 to $50 per pound. All over the world people are frantically try to include goji berries it in their diets.

Earlier, man used to do a lot of physical work, which kept his body active. However today life has become way easier and proscribed as the majority of the work is done with machinery and with the assistance of sophisticated technology.

Goji berries normally grow in Tibet, Mongolia, and China. It is important not to confuse goji berries with a sub-species that is known as wolf berries. These two plants look alike and yield similar looking fruits, but goji berries are sweet and juicy, and wolf berries are bitter and dry in taste.

Very few people know about this basic difference, and because of this wolf berries are passed off goji berries in a number of places around the world.

The goji berry plant is a very strong plant that can adapt to just about any type of soil and climate condition. This plant can with stand extremely hot and cold environments.

Even though this plant thrives in well-drained soil, it grows great in other types of soil as well.

This plant loves the sun and it will bear more fruit if its grown in an area where it is able to receive plenty of sunshine.

Goji berries are a perfect source to get minerals like germanium, zinc, selenium, copper, iron and phosphorus which are regarded as crucial for the body to function correctly.

This plant grows very slowly, and it will start bearing fruit after two years. This plant will be fully mature after five years, and by this time the plant will be somewhere between eight to ten feet tall.

The flowers of the goji berry plant are usually a combination of two different colors, purple and white and they grow together on one tree. Eventually the flowers will become fruit in late summer and you will see beautiful bright red berries covering the plant.

The fresh goji berries are exceptionally sweet and tasty. However, these berries cannot be touched by the human hand, or they will immediately lose their oxidization, and turn black.

This is why, goji berries are always harvested by shaking the plants branches, and then the berries are collected on a mat.