Sitting on grocery store shelves among all of the different varieties of fruit juice is an unassuming nutritional powerhouse: tart cherry juice. It turns out, this beverage is a well-studied supplement teeming with benefits, according to research and sports performance dietitian Susan Kitchen.
Tart cherry juice, which comes from the Montmorency cherries primarily grown in the U.S., is highly concentrated with vitamins, minerals, and beneficial compounds that leave nutrition experts like Kitchen recommending it.
