The Healing Fruit

By Todd Rowley

Tart cherries have pleased the palates of food lovers for centuries. Their ruby-red color and tangy taste won cherries a place on the tables of Roman conquerors, Greek citizens and Chinese noblemen. Cherries were brought to America by ship with early settlers in the 1600s. Now everyone seems to be asking the question: Are There Really Health Benefits in that Bowl of Cherries?

For years now, people in the tart cherry growing areas of the United States and in other cherry growing parts of the world have known a secret about their special red tart fruit. There have been no shortage of claims from these areas that eating cherries in one form or another has helped to reduce pain from arthritis, gout, and other inflammatory diseases.

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