Nutraceuticals and nootropics for anti-aging

Cranberries may have medicinal uses

Cranberry growers in the U.S. are looking for alternative uses for their crops, since the industry is small and not particularly profitable. Much of the crop, in fact, is inefficiently used — the leaves, for example, are usually used as compost.

Now the industry has a small research grant to explore higher-value usage of cranberry products. One of the avenues to be explored is an intriguing result from research done in the 1990s, suggesting that cranberry juice can be used as a nutritional supplement to prevent urinary tract infections.

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Cranberry industry looks to science for better future