GOLDEN BERRIES

I took photos of wild flowers growing in our backyard. One of them is a lantern-like wild flower.

A friend sent me an article regarding golden berries after seeing my photo of this lantern-like flower thru personal message in facebook.

I told her that it seems like it is not the same plant. So I went to our backyard to look more closely to the plant I took a picture of. Luckily, our farm help was there cleaning the peanut plants. I showed him the photos of the golden berry and he told me that it was not the same as the plant I took a photo of.

He pointed me to another plant which is similar but with a bigger fruit inside the lantern-like fruit.

Lo and behold, the tree he pointed out to me was that of the golden fruit. I took a new photo of this super tree with a close up of its fruit.

To know more about this so called super fruit, I searched the internet and found some interesting things about it. Its fruit is similar in shape and structure of a small tomato.

Although there are no therapeutic claims on this berries, a searched on the internet stated that there are some health benefits you can derive from it. These are but some of its health benefits:

 Ability to help lose weight;
 Detoxification
 Blood sugar management
 Heart & power booster
 Anti-inflammatory
 Help fight prostate and prevents stomach and colon cancer
 Source of Vitamin A, B, and C.
 Great diuretic.

Maybe there are more benefits from this wonder fruit that has yet to be discovered.

But like me, this small but super fruit has been taken for granted until someone told you about its wonders.