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Found primarily in North America and grown in bogs, cranberry is an evergreen shrub related to blueberry, buckberry, huckleberry, and bilberry. The cranberry bush has upright branches with leaves that are speckled on the underside by tiny dots. Pink flowers blossom and red-black fruits appear during June and July.

Cranberry fruit is high in antioxidants, partly from substances called proanthocyanidins (which give cranberries their rich color). Antioxidants scavenge damaging particles in the body known as free radicals, which damage cell membranes, tamper with DNA, and even cause cell death. Antioxidants can neutralize free radicals and may reduce or even help prevent some of the damage they cause.

Cranberries are also an excellent source of vitamin C, another important antioxidant. Research is underway to determine if the antioxidant ability of cranberries will help protect against heart disease and cancer.