Great question. The short answer is that you should drink 8oz of tart cherry juice a day.

What makes tart cherries so great?

Enjoy 8oz of Cheribundi tart cherry juice every day for at least a week and you may start to feel the cumulative benefits of this antioxidant-rich superfruit. The tart cherry's high antioxidant levels fuel your both with anthocyanins, plant compounds that give tart cherries in particular their deep red color and help provide their amazing benefits.

Over time, these beneficial compounds take effect, helping to reduce inflammation by up to 49% and offer up to 90 additional minutes of sleep a night. Your muscles will be less sore after workouts from reduced muscle inflammation, you’ll sleep better and easier thanks to tart cherries' naturally occurring melatonin, and you’ll recover faster.

How much tart cherry juice should I drink each day?

While 8 oz of tart cherry juice daily is the amount recommended by scientific studies and sports dietitians alike, the dosage can range a little depending on how active your lifestyle is. Most studies that have been conducted concentrate on people consuming between 8 and 16oz a day. For a regular fitness-minded person, 8 oz of tart cherry juice daily is perfect for helping to reduce sore muscles. For athletes doing heavier daily training or marathon training, 16oz is suggested per day to help combat the extra exertion. 

What's the science behind tart cherry juice?

Over 20 years of studies have been done to help show that tart cherry juice has natural benefits when added to your daily routine.

• A 2009 study in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports tested runners in the London Marathon who consumed 8oz of tart cherry juice a day, and saw an 11% increase in their overall antioxidant status and 49% less inflammation.
• In a 2006 study by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, 14 male student athletes drank 12oz of Cheribundi Tart Cherry twice a day and showed significantly less strength loss (only 3% loss of capacity of eccentric elbow exion contractions) versus those drinking a placebo (24% loss).
• A study in July 2017 noted that in evaluating tart cherry juice, “Timing and dosage vary widely, but most studies use 8 to 12 ounces (1oz if in concentrate form) twice a day.”

So, you can up the amount you drink but the key is to make tart cherry juice a part of your recovery ritual. It’ll be your most delicious and healthy habit. And just to make sure it’s as easy as possible to slot into your lifestyle, we have a range of different juices.

All of our juices start with the best quality tart cherries, but then with some we mix them together with other natural ingredients so that they can better suit your needs.

• PURE is just the cherries, nothing else.
• ORIGINAL is tart cherry juice mixed with a splash of apple juice for sweetness.
• LIGHT is tart cherry juice with ⅓ of the calories as our Original.
• SLEEP is blended with valerian root and L-theanine, which combined with tart cherry juice’s natural levels of melatonin, will help you fall asleep  more easily and have better, deeper sleep.
• PROTEIN adds whey protein to give your muscles that extra support they need to grow.
• PURE CONCENTRATE  is concentrated recovery on the go with the benefits of 40 tart cherries in every pouch.
• SLEEP CONCENTRATE offers the benefits of tart cherry juice with magnesium and 3mg of added melatonin 
• PURE TART CHERRY JUICE GUMMIES now offer a chewable, on-the-go recovery option with just 3g of sugar and 20 calories per serving

So, however and whenever you want to get your daily Cheribundi, we’ve got the juice for you. Whether you drink it in the morning, just before bed, or just after every workout, it will change your recovery ritual forever.