One of the most common uses associated to cranberry is to treat Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs). Cranberry have been used for years by woman to prevent and relieve symptoms of UTIs, usually by drinking cranberry juice.

This common infection causes a burning sensation when urinating, and for many years, cranberries was tought to attack the infection by adicifying the urine and therefore escherichia coli would die.

Actually, with new researchs conducted around cranberry, is known that cranberry juice inhibits microorganisms to be adhered to the mucosal cells into the urinary tract, so avoiding the proliferation of Escherichia coli and other similar bacteria.