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