Cranberries: A side dish for your health

They are a rich source of proanthocyanidins, too.

Although it's a long way to go until Thanksgiving again, when cranberries garnish the special meal in the form of cranberry sauce, there are still plenty of reasons to add cranberries to your regular diet. Cranberries - like its cousins blueberries and bilberries - are a great source of vitamin C and fiber (when used in a whole form, as opposed to juice). All of these berries are also rich sources of bioflavonoids, including a class of bioflavonoids called proanthocyanidins.

While chlorophyll is well known for coloring the plant world green, and the carotenoids add a sprinkle of orange and yellow, most of the purples, …