Taking multivitamins neither increases nor decreases the risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease in women, a study published in the February 2009 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine has shown.

Over 160,000 women from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) took part in the study, nearly half of which used multivitamins on a regular basis.

Cranberry is a widely cultivated plant, with the majority of the crop processed into juice, sauce or dried and sweetened. Cranberry sauce is regarded indispensable in American and Canadian Thanksgiving dishes, but recently it has become a lot more popular, thanks to its high antioxidant capacity and microbe fighting properties. Cranberries are a good source of polyphenol antioxidants, anthocyanidin flavonoids, cyanidin, peonidin and quercetin.