Cranberry Juice Denatures E.coli?

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

They have garlic festivals?!

Yuri

http://www.garlic-festival.co.uk/

In case you wondered why;

"The Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight, the UK’s premier grower of garlic and source of all things garlic."

 

[asmodean]

Yeah, they were imported from the US. No cranberries in Europe, as far as I know.

Sure is. Tranbär in sweden (Vaccinium oxycoccus). Think you can find them all over in northern europe.

(ETA: May be another variant of cranberries though that grows here rather than the one commonly used for foodstuffs?)

 

[pchams]

You don't mean...http://www.waterfall-d-mannose.com/e-coli-cranberry.htm

You're citing a naturopathy site without comment?

 

[Lisa Simpson]

I think Soapy is being sarcastic.

 

[SteveGrenard]

I don't think we are disagreeing, but my scepticism tends towards cynicism when I start to wonder how in vitro information like this gets itself into the national media. Sure it might be therapeutically useful after a great many further steps have been taken to translate it into safe effective medicine, but someone chose to write the press release and send it out now.

I don't mean to be nitpicky but your last line is a bit mind-boggling because it suggests you think that any scientific progress, even on a basic level and on an early level should be suppressed, not publicized, kept hidden or quiet.

It is as important for basic research done in vitro to be brought before scientific meetings, published in journals and circulated to the public as it is for the end stages of such research to be tested in controlled studies and vetted for safety and efficacy. Obviously this Massachusetts institution (as does the U Mass) openly has an interest in supporting the cranberry industry in its state but that doesn't negate the value of their research attempts to find out why there is so much anecdotal evidence that this juice fights UTI and intestinal pathogens such as E.coli.