Re: MS/degenerative myelopathy - gojis
Gotcha, on the beet leaves.>> point taken.
As for the gojis, I think I may have been ripped off. I paid high Himalayan "Tibetan" prices. But it's okay.
I think I can grow some good quality plants -would like to taste them fresh--I am one of those people who likes straight raw cranberries.
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I wonder how concerned one should be about the pesticides...(source: wiki)
Organochlorine pesticides are conventionally used in commercial wolfberry cultivation to mitigate destruction of the delicate berries by insects. Since the early 21st century, high levels of insecticide residues (including fenvalerate, cypermethrin, and acetamiprid) and fungicide residues (such as triadimenol and isoprothiolane), have been detected by the United States Food and Drug Administration in some imported wolfberries and wolfberry products of Chinese origin, leading to the seizure of these products.[12][13]
China's Green Food Standard, administered by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture's China Green Food Development Center, does permit some amount of pesticide and herbicide use.[14][15][16] Agriculture in the Tibetan plateau (where many "Himalayan" or "Tibetan"-branded berries originate) conventionally uses fertilizers and pesticides, making organic claims for berries originating here dubious[17].