There are multiple ways of measuring the might of any beneficial food.

You can measure the number of different types of vitamins or minerals. You can measure the concentration of those vitamins and minerals. Similarily, you can mesure the number of different antioxidants it contains, and of course the concentration of any given antioxidant.

You can measure other factors like fiber content, protein content, and anything else that can be considered a healthy addition to the food source. Any phytochemical, any protein, any vitamin, any mineral, any additive even, all of them, can be measured together or apart.

However, these measurements are all just of the scientific properties inside the food, and therefore fluctuate from food sample to food sample. An Acai berry grown in Texas, for instance, will obviously not be as ‘good for you’ as an acai berry grown in the amazon. (Sorry, Texans. Bigger doesn’t always mean better!)

So how else can one take a measurement of the ‘goodness’ of a food source? How about measuring RESULTS?

For our needs here at the Superfruit Organization, measuring the age of the PEOPLE WHO EAT IT is quite a big hint too.

I have heard a lot about Goji berries and the native Chinese medicine based on it since I started studying superfruits. I think the single most impressive “fact,” if you will allow me to call it that, is that a man is recorded as living 252 years eating Goji soup.

Yeah, I know it sounds like quite a stretch. 252 years… Wow, that’s a long time. How could I write that down with the word “Fact” in that sentence?

Because multiple sources show the Chinese Government as certifying this ‘fact’ as accurate. -I can’t personally vouch for him, you understand, but apparently China will.

The man’s name was Li Qing Yuen. Some swear they knew him, and others can even claim that they are a decendant of his. The remarkable thing though, is that the man did exist, and in 1930, just before his death, the government threw a banquet in his honor. And yes, that is apparently on public record.

Born in 1678 (!) Li supposedly married 14 times and saw 11 generations of his own family born before finally succumbing to old age.

Li credited exactly two things for his long lifespan:

  1. Goji berries in his soup each and every day.
  2. Self Discipline.

(I’d imagine quite a lot of that latter thing.)

Although master Li was an accomplished herbalist and well fit by age 50, it wasn’t until that time when he started his Goji soup regimin. He likely knew about Goji’s medicinal uses before then, but only after meeting an older man taking goji soup daily who could outrun him did Li begin the goji diet fully.

This description is basically the fountain of youth in a nutshell. Did you catch that last part? Even 50 year-olds who haven’t been taking it before can basically start consuming goji berry soup every day and live to be 252!

No wonder you’re thinking “Yeah, uh-huh, sure, I bet…” right now.

After I read that story, It struck me that I don’t have to take it at face value in order to see that Goji has some serious appeal to those who want a very long life. There are, in fact, many pockets of people throughout the Goji-growing regions of China who (yes, even today) who live to be well into their 120s, and possibly beyond.

There are even pictures of people alive today in books from the Ningxia provence (where the best Goji is grown, according to the government certification system) that are in their 120s. It is quite common for people there and in the other Goji-growing capitals to pass the age of 100 and still keep working, with all of their faculties fully intact. -They apparently don’t even have a word for “retirement” in that part of the world.

So basically, it’s very well documented that the oldest people in China are Goji-eaters. I’ll be posting that evidence in time under our reference page. And since I’ve never heard of any other populations living to that age range before (in non-biblical times) It doesn’t take my mind much to connect the two and see that Goji offers a very long lifespan.

Which other superfruits can claim these kind of results?

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