BENEFITS OF TART CHERRY JUICE: YOUR GUIDE

You may have heard a lot of news about tart cherry juice lately. A simple fruit with great benefits. But is any of it true? What’s the deal with tart cherry juice? Glad you asked.

What's the science behind tart cherry juice?

Tart cherry juice had long been revered for its natural benefits, so over the past 20 years, various third-party studies have been conducted to see if this superfruit is as beneficial as the rumors make it out to be. Spoiler: It’s as good, if not better than its reputation.

• In a July 2017 study, the United States Olympic Committee found that tart cherry juice lessened pain and soreness brought on by physical exertion. The same study found that tart cherry juice’s anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties promoted faster muscle recovery.
• A December 2012 study at Northumbria University in England found that “there were significant increases in total sleep time and sleep efficiency total” when participants drank tart cherry juice, due to its high levels of melatonin, the hormone which naturally regulates sleep.
• Additionally, a December 2016 study found that tart cherry juice can assist in the cellular immune response function, in part due to a natural key ingredient, nitric oxide.

These are just a few of the many studies conducted by medical, agricultural, and scientific centers that have all found one thing: tart cherry juice is great at helping you to recover faster, feel less muscle soreness, sleep better so you feel more rested, and help support your immune system.

It’s for all of these reasons that we started Cheribundi. We wanted people to have easy access to the benefits of tart cherries.

What makes Cheribundi the best tart cherry juice option?

There are a lot of tart cherry juice options out there, but Cheribundi's the only one employing a unique, proprietary juicing process developed by scientists at Cornell University to ensure that we keep all the good nutrients in our juices. Using every part of the cherry, our ‘gentle juicing’ technique means that each serving of of Cheribundi contains higher antioxidant levels than other tart cherry juices being offered and the benefits of 60 tart cherries per serving in our Pure 100% tart cherry juice.

We also have a range of different juices to better tailor the drink to your needs.

• PURE tart cherry juice is just 100% pure tart cherries, nothing else.
• ORIGINAL tart cherry juice is tart cherry juice mixed with a splash of apple juice for those who like a sweeter, less tart taste to their daily ritual.
• SLEEP  tart cherry juice 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 quality rest.
• PROTEIN combines tart cherry juice and whey protein to give your muscles that extra kick they need to grow.
• LIGHT is a delicious juice with ⅓ of the calories and less sugar than Original.
• PURE CONCENTRATE- all the goodness of 40 tart cherries packed into a squeezable travel-sized pouch, perfect for on-the-go.
• SLEEP CONCENTRATE - all the benefits of tart cherry juice with magnesium and 3mg of added melatonin for extra deep sleep.
• PURE TART CHERRY JUICE GUMMIES - a chewable, on-the-go recovery option with the support of 20 tart cherries and just 3g of sugar and 20 calories per serving. Our lowest sugar tart cherry option! 

You can find all of Cheribundi's juice and gummy options here.

Thanks to our Contributing Dietitian, Beth McCall, MS, RD, CSSD, for reviewing this post.

Beth McCall, MS, RD, CSSD

Sports Dietitian and Registered Yoga Teacher with over 10 years of experience working with elite-level athletes, aiming to optimize health and performance both in sport and for the entire lifetime.

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