Fresh wolfberry vs dried wolfberry, which one has higher nutritional value?

The most common wolfberries in our daily life are dried and directly soaked in water to drink. Fresh wolfberries may be less common. Did you know that fresh wolfberries can also be eaten and have high nutritional value? Which one has higher nutritional value, fresh wolfberries or dried wolfberries?

Nutritional comparison between fresh wolfberry and dried wolfberry

Fresh wolfberries are on the market because they do not go through the drying, drying, and soaking processes of dried wolfberries, so their functional factors will not be destroyed and they are easily absorbed by the human body. More importantly, the juice contains wolfberry polysaccharides extracted through biological methods. Therefore, the unit value of fresh wolfberries is relatively high.

There are many ways to eat fresh wolfberry, including chewing it directly, drinking it in tea, drinking it in wine, cooking it in porridge, making it in soup, cooking it, etc. No matter how you eat it, it is for the purpose of achieving nutrition and health care, disease prevention, disease resistance and disease treatment.

Research results from the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine show that the absorption rate of wolfberry through traditional methods such as stewing, soaking, and boiling can only reach 2.03% at most, and most of the effective substances are either destroyed or wasted.

The nutritional value and market price of fresh wolfberry are several times higher than those of dried wolfberry.