Beyond Urinary Tract Infections: Five Health Benefits of Cranberries

Beyond Urinary Tract Infections: Five Health Benefits of Cranberries

October 30, 2019

It’s widely known that drinking cranberry juice is helpful for urinary tract infections, but have you ever wondered why this is so? Folk remedies are increasingly validated by science, and so it is that cranberries really are great for infections—and that’s the just the beginning of the storied benefits of this tart, little berry

Cranberries are the small, red fruits of the Vaccinium oxycoccus plant, which grows as short evergreen bushes or trailing vines (American Cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon) throughout a relatively narrow band of the cooler Northern Hemisphere.[1] In the same plant family as the blueberry and lingonberry, cranberries provide the expected nutritional boost of a super fruit, and yes—cranberry juice is great for urinary tract infections. But there is more to this berry than traditional home remedies suggest. Cranberries pack an array of therapeutic benefits that most people have never heard about.

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