Some times after the Battle of Yavin, a spacer explored the Forest Moon of Endor and foraged the forests to find Jinjang berries. The individual later used the berries to cook ice cream in a Corellian fried ice cream fryer.
In 3 ABY, a trio of the brown-furred individuals known as the Kagles served the fruit, along with fried mahuga and tobo leaves, to the Ewok Teebo while on Endor. Teebo later recounted the dinner's dishes to his friend, Wicket Warrick.
Also in that year, a group of young Ewoks—Wicket Warrick, Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka, Teebo, and Latara—carried a bagful of the berries each up a mountain to the guba bird's nest. Kintaka, whose idea it had been, expressed concern for the baby birds, who would be in danger of starving due to the lack of rain. She reached the top first, offering the jinjang berries to the gubas, but they instead plucked her from the nest, rose in the air, and dropped her—her weight caused the nest to sag down and then spring up, launching the Ewoks to the bottom of the mountain.
Jinjang berries were first mentioned in "Home is Where the Shrieks Are," the third episode in the second season of the animated television series Ewoks, which premiered on September 20, 1986. They later appeared in "Battle for the Sunstar," the twentieth episode of the season, which first aired on December 6, 1986. The Disney+ subtitles for "Home is Where the Shrieks Are" misspell the berries' name as "jing-jang berries."
Jinjang berries also appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011. Jinjang berries were added to the game as a rare foraged food component for the portable deep fryer, introduced with the release of the "Chapter 9," published on April 3, 2008. The fruit was misspelled "Gin-jang berry" in the game.
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. II