Cranberries - Not Just For Thanksgiving!

Don't save cranberries for your Thanksgiving feast!jellies close behind. Pies, muffins, and other baked
They're way too valuable to limit to just once a year.goods make tasty use of cranberries.But how about
A mainstay of this traditional American feast,Turkey and Cranberry Panini, or Cranberry Apple
cranberries count among just three fruits indigenousScampi with Sweet Peppers? For an exhaustive
to North America.The Pilgrims named the red berries,source of cranberry recipes and cranberry
but Native American Indians used them long beforepreparation tips, visit Ocean Spray's web site: "Ocean
Europeans set foot on the new land as a healingSpray" and you think cranberry juice. Actually an
agent and a dye for fabric.Sailors ate cranberries toagricultural cooperative owned by more than 650
ward off scurvy and bartered with them for othercranberry growers, Ocean Spray boasts the
goods.Today, commercial growers raise cranberriesbest-selling brand name of canned and bottled juice
throughout the northern United States andsince 1981.Health food stores carry cranberry powder
Canada.HEALTH BENEFITSand extract, as well as cranberry flower
Loaded with antioxidants, flavinoids, and polyphenols,tea.FESTIVALS
this little red berry reigns as nature's medicineMany communities celebrate the cranberry with
chest.Long known to fight urinary tract infections,festivals:
cranberries combat potent bacteria such asWarrens, Wisconsin is the "Cranberry Capital of
Helicobacter pylori and Escherichia coli.CranberriesWisconsin". Residents of this Wisconsin community
inhibit the growth of oral bacteria that causeswelcome 100,000 visitors to one of America's biggest
periodontal gum disease and stomach ulcers.Thefestivals. Events include a parade, shopping, and an
highest antioxidant-containing fruit, cranberries offer aarts and crafts festival. The Cranberry Festival in
healthy, natural defense in the battle against heartChatsworth, New Jersey is the third largest cranberry
disease and cancer.Cranberry flavinoids inhibit thefestival in the United States. Cranberry Festival in
accumulation of bad cholesterol in the arteries, knownBala, Ontario, Canada offers entertainment,
as atherosclerosis.Recent research finds cranberryattractions and vendors. Port, Massachusetts
seed oil rich in tocotrienols, a form of vitamin E, asCranberry Festival features a crafts tent, food
well as omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Cranberrybooths, carnival, entertainment, and fire works. Stone
seed oil claims the lowest level of saturated fat ofLake Cranberry Festival in Stone Lake, Wisconsin,
the most commonly used edible oils.New studiespopulation 544, hosts over 30,000 guests.
determine that cranberries may even fight the lossCRANBERRY CHRONICLES
of coordination and memory common in the agingThe cranberry claims it own
process, resulting in dementia and Alzheimer'sMagazine - Institute - and Marketing committee -
disease.Extreme tartness prevents the cranberryThis small, versatile, and amazing berry deserves a
from achieving "perfect fruit" status, at least forplace in your daily diet.Looking for diet and weight
most palates, necessitating sweetening of juices andloss tips? Kathy Ferneau has created an excellent
jellies.HOW TO EAT CRANBERRIESresource for information on diets, healthy eating, and
Juice accounts for most cranberry consumption, withexercise.