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Chinese Farmers Spraying Wolfberries With Industrial Sulfur: State Media - Business Insider - lemm.ee (lemm.ee)

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

... dafuq's a wolf berry?

[–] swicano@vegantheoryclub.org 6 points 2 months ago

Goji, goji berry, or wolfberry (Chinese: 枸杞; pinyin: gǒuqǐ) is ... [from wikipedia]

I can't read most of the article due to paywall, but I thought many dried fruits had sulfur something something in them to preserve color. I wonder if this is just an extreme version of that

[–] Regna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A couple of seconds searching confirmed that it’s goji berry.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

and also in the article

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Sodium metabisulfate...

Meanwhile in the USA farmers spray wheat with glyphosate a week before harvest and then we all ingest fucking herbicide in every goddamn food product