{"id":84,"date":"2007-03-21T23:33:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2014-08-14T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:44:51","slug":"goji-berries-and-vitamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Goji berries and Vitamin C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for anyone researching goji berries, in the hope they&#8217;ll come across this page, and not just accept the usual marketing page they come across. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goji_berry\">Goji berries<\/a> are a great food. But they <em>do not<\/em> contain 500 times more Vitamin C than oranges, as is so often misleadingly claimed on marketing sites. Goji berries contain 2500mg\/100g, while oranges contain 50mg\/100g <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vitamin_C\">Vitamin C<\/a>. That&#8217;s 50 times more! Still a great food, but not quite what is claimed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: It turns out goji berries don&#8217;t even have 50 times more Vitamin C than oranges. They seem to be up there with lychees and brussel sprouts, i.e. only slightly more!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for anyone researching goji berries, in the hope they&#8217;ll come across this page, and not just accept the usual marketing page they come across. Goji berries are a great food. But they do not contain 500 times more Vitamin C than oranges, as is so often misleadingly claimed on marketing sites. Goji berries&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=84\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goji berries and Vitamin C<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}