Cranberries offer many important healthful virtues. Of all the fruit, cranberries take top honours for their
antioxidant properties, which help to prevent many disorders, such as urinary tract infections, cardiovascular
diseases, cancer and problems associated with aging.
Cranberry juice has the same health virtues as dried cranberries.
FALSE. Proanthocyanidin, one of the powerful antioxidants found in cranberries, can mostly be
found in the skin of cranberries.
There are no contraindications for cranberry juice.
FALSE. Cranberry juice is believed to interact with warfarin (Coumadin®), an anticoagulant agent.
Patients taking an anticoagulant agent should therefore limit the quantity of cranberry juice they drink.
Eating antioxidant-rich foods is like "rust-proofing" your body.
TRUE. When free radicals build up in the body, they break down cell walls, proteins and DNA,
just as rust destroys a car. Antioxidants have properties that let them counter the effects of free radicals. That's
why they are important for our health!