Tart Cherry

About

Cherries have been popular for millennia, for food, for their aesthetic appeal and also in herbal medicine. Tart cherries are the fruit of the Montmorency cultivar of the Prunus cerasus tree, and are loved for their culinary as well as for their potential therapeutic uses. Tart Cherry Benefits Tart cherry is a natural source of phytomelatonin, a plant-sourced naturally-occurring form of melatonin, the hormone responsible for balanced sleep/wake cycles. In our modern lives, melatonin production is easily disrupted, due to too many hours spent looking at screens, irregular sleep routines, working night shifts, jet lag and too much light. Tart cherry may support the body’s natural sleep patterns. As well as this, tart cherry has traditionally been used to support the body’s response to painfully high uric acid levels, and may support maintenance of healthy uric acid levels in the blood