Cranberry Plus Vitamin C
Super Cranberry Juice Concentrate
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Super Cranberry juice concentrate contains natural acids (including quinic acid and benzoic acids plus bacteriostatic substances) that appear to kill the bacteria normally responsible for infections in the urinary tract.
Helps restore normal acid balance for optimum urinary system functioning.
Recent health reports recommend daily Cranberry intake to help maintain cardiovascular health.
No Sugar, Salt, Starch, Preservatives or Artificial Coloring Added.
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Cranberry, a small evergreen shrub containing dark pink flowers and cranberries grows in bogs and forests from Tennessee to Alaska and blooms from late spring until the end of the summer. The small red cranberry fruit is produced in fall making Thanksgiving cranberry season. Pilgrims were rumored to have eaten cranberry during Thanksgiving. Sailors especially liked cranberries because eating them provided Vitamin C and prevented scurvy. In the 1800’s is was discovered that the urine of people who ate cranberries contained a bacteriostatic compound. Cranberry juice is commonly used today as a home remedy to prevent bacterial urinary tract infections.
Cranberry juice creates a barrier that keeps bacteria away from cells in the urinary tract.
For generations, people have consumed cranberry juice, convinced of its power to ward off urinary tract infections, though the exact mechanism of its action has not been well understood. A new study by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) reveals that the juice changes the thermodynamic properties of bacteria in the urinary tract, creating a barrier that prevents the microorganisms from getting close enough to latch onto cells and initiate an infection.
The researchers found that even at low concentrations, cranberry juice altered two properties that serve as indicators of the ability of bacteria to attach to cells. The first factor is called Gibbs free energy of attachment, which is a measure of the amount of energy that must be expended before a bacterium can attach to a cell. Without cranberry juice, this value was a negative number, indicating that energy would be released and attachment was highly likely. With cranberry juice the number was positive and it grew steadily as the concentration of juice increased, making attachment to urinary tract cells increasingly unlikely.
Surface free energy also rose, suggesting that the presence of cranberry juice creates an energy barrier that repels the bacteria. The researchers also placed the bacteria and urinary tract cells together in solution. Without cranberry juice, the fimbriaed bacteria attached readily to the cells. As increasing concentrations of cranberry juice were added to the solution, fewer and fewer attachments were observed.
Cranberry juice had no discernible effect on E. coli bacteria without fimbriae, suggesting that compounds in the juice may act directly on the molecular structure of the fimbriae themselves. This reinforces previous work by the WPI team that showed that exposure to cranberry juice alters the shape of the fimbriae, causing them to become compressed. Using an atomic force microscope as a minute strain gauge, the team also showed that the adhesive force exerted by bacteria on urinary tract cells declined in direct proportion to the concentration of cranberry juice in the solution.
The results show that, at least for urinary tract infections, cranberry juice targets the right bacteria-- those that cause disease--but has no effect on non-pathogenic organisms, suggesting that cranberry juice will not disrupt bacteria that are part of the normal flora in the gut, This effect occurs at concentrations of cranberry juice that are comparable to levels that would be expected in the urinary tract. When E. coli. bacteria that have been treated with cranberry juice and are placed in normal growth media, they regain the ability to adhere to urinary tract cells. This suggests that to realize the antibacterial benefits of cranberry, one must consume cranberry juice regularly--perhaps daily.
