Introduction to the main producing areas and varieties of Lycium barbarum

With the improvement of people's living standards, the trend of health preservation is becoming more and more popular, and Chinese wolfberry is one of the hot varieties of health food. Chinese wolfberry, also known as Chinese wolfberry, is used both in medicine and food, but the small one has a variety of health effects, and many people like to use it to make tea and stew. Nowadays, the Chinese wolfberry industry in China also has a rapid improvement, so do you know the main producing areas and varieties of Chinese wolfberry? Let's study together.

Classification of Lycium barbarum varieties

There are many varieties of Chinese wolfberry, including Chinese wolfberry, Ningxia wolfberry, Xinjiang wolfberry, black fruit wolfberry, Yunnan wolfberry, column tube wolfberry and calyx wolfberry. The grading standard of Chinese wolfberry varies with each variety, which can be divided into the national grading standard of general Chinese wolfberry and the grading standard of Xinjiang Chinese wolfberry.

The main producing areas of Chinese wolfberry

According to relevant records, the four major producing areas of Chinese wolfberry are:

① Zhangye, Gansu Province (formerly known as Ganzhou) along the Chinese wolfberry, the product is called "Gan Lycium barbarum"

② Zhongwei, Zhongning area of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, the product is called "West Lycium barbarum", which is now called "Ningxia Lycium barbarum".

③ the black Chinese wolfberry in the Gobi region of western Qinghai, especially the black Chinese wolfberry in Nuomuhong, Qinghai.

The last kind of ④ is Xinjiang wolfberry, the product is called "Guchengzi Chinese wolfberry".

1. Gansu wolfberry

Gansu Chinese wolfberry takes the famous producing area Jingyuan as an example, the variety also comes from Ningxia, but Gansu Jingyuan Chinese wolfberry has a mellow taste, thick pulp and slightly sweet chewing. And due to the climatic conditions in Gansu, the advantages of good quality and affordable price of Gansu wolfberry stand out year by year, and it is not inferior in terms of nutrition.

2. Ningxia wolfberry

Ningxia Lycium barbarum has been planted for more than 600 years, among which Zhongning County has the best quality. The soil in Zhongning area is alkaline and has a large temperature difference between day and night, which is suitable for the growth of Lycium barbarum. As early as the Ming Dynasty, the wolfberry here was listed as a tribute. Ningxia Lycium barbarum is dark red in color, wrinkled in color, with a floating rate of more than 85%, and its pulp is not very thick, and its taste is sweet and bitter.

3. Qinghai wolfberry

Qinghai Lycium barbarum is famous for its black wolfberry, and its unique climate brings unparalleled nutritional advantages to it. Qinghai black Chinese wolfberry pericarp color is black and shiny, fruit stalk color is yellow, taste slightly sweet, bubble water drink tasteless. As the flowers and fruits of wild black wolfberry are few, its market price has always been high.

4. Xinjiang wolfberry

Xinjiang Chinese wolfberry is mostly oval, or ovoid, few folds, dark red color, a little purple. Xinjiang Lycium barbarum is relatively sweet, high in sugar content, easy to agglomerate and difficult to preserve.

The above is the introduction of the main producing areas and variety classification of Chinese wolfberry. Generally speaking, Chinese wolfberry is an excellent crystallization of traditional Chinese medicine culture in China, and its origin is widely distributed in China, and the characteristics of Chinese wolfberry varieties from different producing areas are also very different. I wonder where do you like the Chinese wolfberry? Welcome to leave a message for discussion.

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