Taste these and see the difference! We use them most mornings in our breakfast smoothy. Because they cost a little more than other goji berries (which are from China), we tried using cheaper berries. But we found that the difference in TASTE is ENORMOUS. We just can't help but feel that there are things in these Tibetan berries that others don't have. Now we don't bother with the other kinds. I would rather have a smaller amount of these ones, than the kinds available in health foods stores.