Eden Selected Dried Montmorency Cherries, 4-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 3)

These Eden Dried Montmorency Cherries are perfection! Deliciously tart and taste better than anything at Trader Joe's! Added bonus - no sulfites or added refined sugars! I can get them at my local grocer for $7.29/bag or on Amazon in packs of three and save! I wish these were on subscribe and save! I love to eat daily either out of the bag or is a favorite recipe of mine for free for you (please click on helpful below)! In a beautiful glass bowl, place 1 diced organic pink lady apple, add a handful of  Eden Dried Montmorency Cherries, 4-Ounce Pouch (Pack of 3) , add a handful of crushed Living Intentions: Gone Nuts! Maple Mesquite Flour Candied Walnuts, 3.5oz (Raw/Sprouted Snacks), cover with organic Saigon cinnamon and Redwood Hill Farms goatmilk kefir! YUMMY! Also delicious to add to chocolate chip cookies or pancakes! You can get a 10pound bag directly from Eden for $197.20. According to Eden's website, their dried montmorency cherries are gluten-free, wheat-free, fat-free, and very low sodium. While the apple juice and safflower oil are both organic, the montmorency tart cherries are transitional to organic but I wonder in what year they are in their transition??? Traditionally known as the "healing cherry", contains 17 powerful antioxidants! 2.5 (1/4cup) servings per bag each with 140 calories with 2 of those being from fat. 350mg potassium, 36g carbs, 3g dietary fiber and 31g sugars. GLUTEN-FREEI just love adding these cherries to everything including pancakes, brownies, green bean almondine, etc. You can substitute these tart cherries for cranberries in just about any recipe! These dried montmorency cherries by Eden are THE BEST!The Remarkable Health Benefits of Cherries...Acute inflammation is part of the body's protective response to injuries, infections and other irritants, but long-term low grade inflammation puts you at risk of serious conditions like heart disease and diabetes.Tart Cherries' amazing potential to lower disease riskNow, new research, reported on at the Experimental Biology annual meeting in California, adds even more evidence to support cherries ability to alleviate inflammation.In one study, 10 overweight or obese men and women were provided with 8 ounces of tart cherry juice or a placebo beverage daily for four weeks. The results were encouraging. Participants, drinking the cherry juice, showed significant reductions in known markers of inflammation and lower levels of triglycerides (blood fats) and LDL cholesterol -- both known risk factors for heart disease.Researcher, Dr. Mitch Seymour, who led an animal study at the University of Michigan, in which tart cherries were again found to lower inflammation, said: "Chronic inflammation is a whole body condition that can affect overall health, especially when it comes to the heart. This study offers further promise that foods rich in antioxidants, such as cherries, could potentially reduce inflammation and have the potential to lower disease risk."To start with, tart cherries can aid muscle recovery following exercise. A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine revealed that strength loss and pain following exercise were significantly less in the cherry juice trial compared to the placebo trial. Most notably, strength loss averaged over the four days after exercise was 22 per cent with the placebo but only 4 per cent with the cherry juice-drinkers.Several earlier studies have confirmed that tart cherries offer benefits for patients with autoimmune, neurodegenerative and connective tissue diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. Studies show that tart cherries not only reduce pain and inflammation but also offer protection against cancer. These effects are attributed to the high amounts of plant phytochemicals, known as anthocyanins, they contain.Research has shown that a diet containing cherries is beneficial in reducing the risk of colon cancer. When researchers fed a diet containing tart cherries, anthocyanins, or cyanidin (a non-sugar breakdown product of anthocyanins) to mice with a genetic susceptibility to colon cancer, the animals developed significantly fewer and smaller colon tumours. This study also revealed that these compounds effectively reduced the growth of two human colon cancer cell lines.The cancer-protective benefits of this fruit were validated in another experimental study, in which cherry fruit extract reduced the growth of both human colon cancer cells and human breast cancer cells in a dose-dependent fashion.Researchers have suggested that a possible mechanism by which cherries may confer these benefits is through shutting down the growth of cancer cells by depriving them of the proteins they need to grow.Supporting melatonin levels and brain healthTart cherries are one of the few food sources of melatonin, a chemical released in the body by the pineal gland that is closely connected with the regulation of the sleep-wake cycle. Melatonin also acts as a powerful antioxidant, providing neuro-protective and immune-modulating effects.Ongoing scientific studies are demonstrating how foods naturally rich in melatonin - like Montmorency cherries - can help sufferers of insomnia gain deep, restful sleep.Tart cherries are also rich in phenolic compounds, which have strong neuro-protective activity. In a laboratory setting, cherry phenolics protected neuronal cells from cell-damaging oxidative stress in a dose-dependent manner. Tart cherry compounds may therefore play an important role in protecting ageing adults against neurodegenerative conditions such as memory loss, senile dementia, and perhaps even Alzheimer's disease.Give it to me!Why do people use tart cherries and tart cherry juice?Both sweet and tart cherries and cherry juice have long been used by traditional healers as a folk remedy for gout, because cherries are thought to lower urate levels in the body.Tart cherries are used for conditions involving inflammation and pain, such as: * arthritis * gout * muscle pain * back pain * diabetes * neurodegenerative diseasesBoth sweet and tart cherries contain phenolics, naturally-occurring plant compounds that have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant effects.The main type of phenolic in cherries is called anthocyanins. In general, the darker the cherry color, the higher the anthocyanin content.Anthocyanins have been found to block two enzymes, COX-1 and COX-2, which play a role in the production of inflammatory compounds called prostaglandins. Aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as naproxen and ibuprofen also work this way.In test tube studies, cherry anthocyanins have been found to protect neurons from damage by oxidative stress. However, there have been no studies that have looked at whether cherry extracts could prevent or slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease in humans.Both Balaton and Montmorency tart cherries contain relatively high levels of the antioxidant melatonin compared to other foods. Montmorency cherries contain approximately 6 times more melatonin than do Balaton cherries.Are tart cherries more effective than sweet cherries?Generally, tart cherries have been found to have higher concentrations of phenolics and anthocyanins than sweet cherries.Tart cherries are also slightly lower in sugar. Half a cup of sweet cherries contains 9.3 g of sugar and 46 calories, compared to 6.6 g of sugar and 39 calories in tart cherries.However, there is no real evidence that these differences are significant-both types of cherries are very high in anthocyanins compared with other foods.It may be that we are hearing more about the health benefits of tart cherries because of the way they are marketed. In 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to 29 cherry farmers and distributors for positioning tart cherries on their websites as a medicinal food that could possibly help people with gout, arthritis, diabetes, and prevent cancer.What research has been done on tart cherries?Although anthocyanins, which are also found in blueberries and other purplish-red fruits and vegetables, are known to be powerful antioxidants, no studies have looked at whether cherries--tart or sweet--can relieve symptoms of arthritis, gout, or diabetes outside the lab.All studies involving cherries have been very small, so we'll have to wait to see whether tart cherries are beneficial and in what quantities. In the meantime, here are a few of the studies that have been conducted so far: * A small randomized controlled trial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine examined the effectiveness of a tart cherry juice blend in preventing symptoms of exercise-induced muscle damage. Fourteen male college students drank 12 fl oz of a cherry juice blend or a placebo, twice per day for eight consecutive days. Strength loss was significantly lower in people taking the cherry juice (4%) compared with the placebo (22%). Pain was also significantly lower in people taking the cherry juice. * Jill M. Tall, Ph.D., research fellow at Johns Hopkins, was the lead researcher of a study that tested the effectiveness of orally administrated anthocyanins from tart cherries on inflammation-induced pain in rats. The results of the study suggested that tart cherry anthocyanins may have a beneficial role in reducing inflammatory pain. * One small study published in the Journal of Nutrition supported the anti-gout effectiveness of cherries. assessed the effects of Bing cherry (a sweet cherry) consumption on healthy women and found that cherry consumption decreased blood urate levels, and there was a marginal decrease in inflammatory markers c-reactive protein and nitric oxide.

My 4 yr old discovered these at WHole Foods as we were looking for some things to make trail mix. We started eating them in the store and loved them. Love them so much that I looked on amazon to see if we could get a better price because they are not inexpensive! The savings on amazon was decent and I really like being able to utilize the subscribe & save option which saves an additional 15%. I don't believe they are organic, but I've had good experiences with EDEN products and these are terrific mixed with nuts and cacao nibs (we like the Navitas brand). My only complaint is that I wish I could get them in bulk so I wasn't wasting all the little re-sealable packets. Enjoy!

called Eden to ask why these are offered by Amazon when I search for organic cherries?they claim to use NO sprays or fertilizers & are waiting the for the organic certification, it takes many years.These dried cherries are plump while chewy & have the most complex sweet/tart sublime cherry flavor of any we have ever purchased!mostly we eat them fresh but my friends clamor for orange cherry scones & dark chocolate cherry cookies

These are by far, the best tart dried cherries! very flavorful! worth the $$$

So, so, SO incredibly good. I got a subscription for these, thinking I'd order them every 3 or 4 months. Three weeks later we were out and I ordered another batch of three. These are seriously amazing. One of my kids (age 4) who refuses almost all but the most common fruits tried these and now asks for these every day :) If you're on the fence about trying these ... trust me you won't be disappointed.

Not a problem that they aren't 100% organic for me (it seems a blend of organic and non-organic, probably different sources). They're not noted as organic anywhere on the packaging. These are some of the tastiest cherries you can get if you like a little pucker. If only they weren't so expensive! Also the ingredients list (reason I bought these really) is great, 3 items, that's it. No added sugar!

These are a great balance between the sweetness of the juice, to the tartness of the montmorency cherries, they taste just like the cherries in a cherry pie.Also, before people go and start to bad mouth these because they are 'transitional to organic'....maybe they should know just what that term means instead of jumping off the gun and starting with the cherries are not organic crap.

These are sweet and tart and fresh and delicious! Great for snacks or in cereal or yogurt.