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Today’s Highlight: Where can I find goji berries in Stavanger, Norway?
Goji berries, are a so-called ‘superfood’ and commonly used in China to aid in health related ailments such as low libido, eye sight issues and to help prevent colds. As the BBC reports, they are said to contain, weight for weight, more:
- vitamin C than oranges
- beta-carotene than carrots
- iron than steak
and loaded with other nutritional goodies.
This nutritionally-rich fruit has been used in China for over 5000 years and has become more and more common in the West in the past decade. They are usually sold dry and taste like a slightly more tart, savory cranberry.
Dried goij berries can be found in most health food and organic food stores in Stavanger as well as most of the rest of Norway. They can also be bought online from places like this and are permissible to be imported into Norway for personal use.
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Hey, we were in Stavanger for the first time this weekend! If I'd remembered you live there I'd have bought you a beer! How 'bout next time?
ReplyDeleteSo, how do you use goji berries? I'm thinking of rehydrating some and putting them in muffins as a substitute for cranberries. Any other thoughts?
My niece emailed me last month asking for smoked paprika powder...Let me know where I can get some! Gina
ReplyDeleteGo to Sunkost or Life, the health chains, OR check out some local immigrant/asian stores. They have gojies, but often a "cheaper" brand. If you want organic and so on, you need to look at the chains. I don't know where they are in Stavanger, a few years since I moved, but any big shopping centre should have at least one of them!
ReplyDeleteGoji berries can also be found at Norvina's in Stavanger.
ReplyDelete@jerseytjej - Smoked paprika powder can be found in Stavanger at Idsøe butchery. Not sure where you are but you can also try to find it at your local butchery or online.
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