Cherries

About Cherries

Cherries were first cultivated around 70 BC in present day Armenia.  They are a difficult tree to grow and keep alive and have a lot of pests.  Because of this, non-organic cherries are typically heavily sprayed with pesticides.  Turkey and the United States are the top 2 producers of cherries in the world.  There are 2 primary varieties of cherries: sweet (e.g. bing) and tart (aka sour cherries).  Sweet cherries are typically the cherries we eat raw and tart cherries are typically the cherries we use when cooking.

Nutrition Benefits of Cherries

Cherries contain antioxidants – in particular anthocyanins and cyanidin.  They are known for helping with sleep (melatonin), arthritis / pain relief, reducing belly fat, lowering risk of stroke, inflammation, and reducing risk of gout.

Smoothie Tip

Buy frozen cherries.  It’s way cheaper and easier than pitting and storing fresh cherries to use in smoothies!

If you are using fresh cherries, be sure to pit them.  Blenders don’t do well with the pits.

Nutrition Facts

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Cherries scores well for 6 health goals

This ingredient was scored for various health goals Learn more.

The Research

Athletic Performance: Score 92

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Cherries can reduce inflammation and accelerate recovery. They also minimize post exercise pain.

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Fat Loss: Score 92

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Human: Cherries appear to positively alter a number of abnormalities associated with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Animal: Cherrie intake alters abdominal fat, fat gene transcription and inflammation in obesity prone rats fed a high fat diet.

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Diabetes (Type 2): Score 90

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Human: Cherries positively alter a number of abnormalities associated with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, in human studies.

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Circulatory System (Cardiovascular): Score 86

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Cherries have cardioprotective properties.

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Erectile Dysfunction: Score 86

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Cherries have cardioprotective properties.

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Cancer: Score 84

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In Vitro: Cherries have antioxidant and anticancer activity. It inhibits colon cancer cell tumor development and proliferation. It has anti-tumor potential against colon cancer cells.

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How Our Scoring System Works

For each health goal, we assigned a score to each recipe and each ingredient. This helps you better understand the correlation that medical research is suggesting between foods and benefits to various health goals. Our scoring system is based on REAL RESEARCH published on pubmed.gov. This is a website that curates over 25 million different biomedical journals.

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What we consider when creating your scores:

  • 1Type of Study (human, animal, lab, or academic review)
  • 2Amount of Research
  • 3What the Research Says
  • 4How much of the ingredient we use (for the recipes)
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