The World's Largest Blueberry That Ate New Zealand
The world’s largest blueberry is about to hit New Zealand soil, literally. The Eterna variety, famed for its ping-pong-ball size and 20.4 gram world-record fruit, is being planted in Kerikeri and Waikato by The Fresh Berry Company in partnership with global powerhouse Driscoll’s.
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How New Zealand Is Rewiring Traditional Chinese Medicine
New Zealand is quietly rewriting the rules of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a field that’s been brewing herbs the same way for 5,000 years. Enter Alpha Group, once a West Auckland garage project, now a global biotech heavyweight — whose patented low-temperature extraction tech is stripping active compounds from plants, fungi, and fruits without destroying their potency.
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Chinese TikTok Turns Chilean Cherries into Clicks
What’s really at play here is a shift in how fresh produce reaches Asia’s growing middle class: farm-to-feed-scroll. Chilean cherries have long relied on logistics and Lunar-New-Year gifting culture; now they’re adding algorithms. For the AG2, grown in Chile’s Colchagua Valley and rooted in 1950s Californian genetics, TikTok isn’t just an ad channel, it’s the market itself.
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