I was wondering the same thing, Alison! I'm a cranberry specialist in Maine, and came by this article via GOOGLE. I realized I wasn't sure, either, how MUCH cranberry juice one is supposed to take in order to get the UTI preventionary benefit, but I didn't think it was all that much per day, so I did a little digging. I went to the Cranberry Institute's site online at http://www.cranberryinstitute.org/health/urinarytract.htm and based on what they report, just one serving per day does the job, although they indicate that two servings per day may be more dependable. I drink cranberry juice every day, just for the taste & health, and because of my obvious love for cranberries (being my bread and butter, so to speak), and what I like to do and would recommend to anyone, is to buy pure, 100% cranberry (no sugar added). I've only found a single supplier of it, sold in medium-sized bottles, under the name "Just Cranberry." It's TOUGH to try to drink that stuff straight, but what I love to do is to mix a portion of the bottle into the Ocean Spray jugs of cranberry juice, in order to make them less sweet and to increase the cranberry content, both of which make it much healthier! The "Just Cranberry" bottles are expensive, but one bottle usually lasts me a month when I just use it to mix in with my other juice jugs. It's great!! In Maine grocery stores, the bottles are kept in health food sections of the stores and not with the regular Ocean Spray juices, etc. AND they are available in some health food stores I've visited. The company making the "Just Cranberry" is a bottling company from somewhere in California, of all places, and they do the same thing with various other juices, too, like pomegranate, concord grape, etc. Hope this helps you!!
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I was wondering the same thing, Alison! I'm a cranberry specialist in Maine, and came by this article via GOOGLE. I realized I wasn't sure, either, how MUCH cranberry juice one is supposed to take in order to get the UTI preventionary benefit, but I didn't think it was all that much per day, so I did a little digging. I went to the Cranberry Institute's site online at http://www.cranberryinstitute.org/health/urinarytract.htm and based on what they report, just one serving per day does the job, although they indicate that two servings per day may be more dependable. I drink cranberry juice every day, just for the taste & health, and because of my obvious love for cranberries (being my bread and butter, so to speak), and what I like to do and would recommend to anyone, is to buy pure, 100% cranberry (no sugar added). I've only found a single supplier of it, sold in medium-sized bottles, under the name "Just Cranberry." It's TOUGH to try to drink that stuff straight, but what I love to do is to mix a portion of the bottle into the Ocean Spray jugs of cranberry juice, in order to make them less sweet and to increase the cranberry content, both of which make it much healthier! The "Just Cranberry" bottles are expensive, but one bottle usually lasts me a month when I just use it to mix in with my other juice jugs. It's great!! In Maine grocery stores, the bottles are kept in health food sections of the stores and not with the regular Ocean Spray juices, etc. AND they are available in some health food stores I've visited. The company making the "Just Cranberry" is a bottling company from somewhere in California, of all places, and they do the same thing with various other juices, too, like pomegranate, concord grape, etc. Hope this helps you!!
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