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More Power to the Cranberry: Study Shows Juice Better Than Extracts at Fighting Infections


October 28, 2011

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With scientific evidence now supporting the age-old wisdom that cranberries prevent urinary tract infections, people are wondering if extracting and condensing proanthocyanidins, or PACs, a group of flavonoids found in cranberries, perhaps in pill form, would be as effective as drinking the juice or eating cranberry sauce. A new study from researchers at Worcester Polytechnic shows that the juice is far better at preventing biofilm formation, the precursor of infection, than PACs alone.Full Story

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