Goji Juice Ingredients – Detailed Nutrient Content Breakdown
Goji Juice Ingredients: contains 53 essential nutrients for the human well being.
Wolfberry, the sole ingredient in goji juice contains a large percentage of a person’s daily macronutrient needs. They include protein, carbohydrates, fat and dietary fiber. Sixty eight percent of the mass of dried goji berries is carbohydrates, hence its sweet taste. It contains about twelve percent of protein, about ten percent in fat and fiber.
Here is the run-down of some of the other compounds that have been found in the goji berry:
- Eleven essential and twenty-two trace minerals (dietary)
- Eighteenamino acids
- Six essential vitamins
- Eight polysaccharides and six monosaccharides
- Five unsaturated fatty acids, including linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid (essential)
- Beta-sitosterol among other phytosterols
- Zeaxanthin lutein , beta-carotene, cryptoxanthin, lycopene,
- Phenolic pigments often associated with antioxidant properties
The goji juice ingredients listed below are meant for 100 grams of the dried berry:
- 112 mg per of Calcium
- 1,132 mg of Potassium
- 9 mg of Iron.
- 0.2 mg of Zinc
- 100 grams of Selenium.
- Riboflavin (vitamin B2). At 1.3 mg
- 29 mg to 148 mg of Vitamin C. The amount of Vitamin C will depend on the source you are getting your goji juice from.
Here is list of some of the other ingredients the goji juice may contain:
Beta-carotene: 7 mg; The Zeaxanthin will vary greatly from source to source and crop to crop. The range can be expected between 25 mg per 100 grams to 200.
It is important that we carefully choose the source of our natural remedies including goji. The natural food business is huge already and it is still growing. That attracts people who may not be one hundred percent honorable. First of all, your health is at stake. At last but not at least, goji juice is expensive so you better make sure that you get your money’s worth by being on the lookout for all the goji juice ingredients that make this substance worth paying for.
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