Chocolate Goldenberries - 8 oz, 16 oz

Chocolate Goldenberries - 8 oz, 16 oz

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Tart and Tangy, Sinfully good. These bite size morsels make for the most awesome desert, snack or treat! 

Goldenberries—a rare breed of tangy high-nutrient berry—are an amazing source of flavor and nutrients… 

...but smothered in dairy-free dark chocolate, these moist, chewy bites become a decadent explosion of antioxidants, protein, and mood-lifting bioflavonoids!

Not only that, both the chocolate and the Goldenberries come from small family farm collectives which use  ecologically sustainable techniques that revitalize soil and protect habitat.

 So enjoy a handful of these delicious, powerful berries – they’re good for you, good for people, and good for our planet!

Wildcrafted Goldenberries

Goldenberries are alsocalled cape gooseberry or agauaymanto berry. Locally called mullaca, uvilla, uchuva, the plant is an annual herb indigenous to many parts of the tropics, including the Amazon rainforest. It can be found on most continents in the tropics, including Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It grows up to one meter high, bears small, cream-colored flowers, and produces small, light yellowish-orange, edible fruit. The leaves of the plant have many ethnobotanical uses around the world. The goldenberry is one of the first plants to pioneer degraded areas. Its robustness and adaptability could lead to cultivation in many now unused marginal areas.

The fruit is found in markets from Venezuela to Chile, and the plants have been grown on limited scale around the world in warm climates. Goldenberries are succulent golden fruits the size of marbles. They are protected by papery husks resembling Chinese lanterns. Currently in areas where they are grown they are largely regarded as backyard fruits for children, but upscale European markets pay premium prices for them, dipping them in chocolate to decorate pastries. They make excellent jams, which are popular in India and Africa.

Dried, they make a delicious, tart, and highly nutritious and exotic "raisin." They are high in phosphorous, vitamins A, C, B1, B2, B6, and B12. They are also extremely high in protein (16%) for a fruit.

Essential Living Foods' Goldenberries

From pristine, exotic regions in South America comes one of the world’s most unique berries. Still relatively unknown in the natural foods world, Essential Living Foods' Goldenberries are tart, tangy berries that look like golden raisins.

Goldenberries grow on a small shrub, often just one to three feet in height. Its small, cream-colored flowers produce a large, marble-sized yellowish-orange fruit. Living up to it’s exotic reputation, each berry is surrounded by a papery yellow shell--much like you find on the outside of a tomatillo.

To produce this unique product, the berries are first hand-picked, then washed, inspected and ultimately shade-dried to the optimum moisture levels. They are free of any chemical pesticides, sulfur or heavy metals since they are inspected again and tested for purity before packaging.

Nutritional Benefits

  • Essential Living Foods Goldenberries are high in phosphorous, vitamins A, C, B1, B2, B6, and B12.
  • Goldenberries have 73-95% of the daily allowance of vitamin C, and for a fruit, they also have an extremely high protein content of 16%.
  • Goldenberries are considered a good source of vitamin P (bioflavonoid) and are rich in pectin.