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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... dafuq's a wolf berry?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

and also in the article