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Cranberry is a familiar accompaniment to the American Thanksgiving meal and is also one of the most versatile antibacterial herbs. Cranberry is a fruit native to North America, with almost 98% of the world supply cultivated in the northern U.S. and Canada. Both indigenous Americans and colonists valued cranberry for its nutritional properties. Cranberries are a high value crop, ranking 40th in sales of all cash crops monitored by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistical Service. Cranberry contains arbutin, colorful anthocyanins and their colorless precursors the oligomeric proanthocyanidins, and natural sugars (that you can't taste).