CranActin® Cranberry AFTM ExtractCranactin® is intended to provide nutritive support to help promote a normal, healthy urinary tract.Cranberry Juice CocktailSome people drink cranberry juice cocktail as a way of obtaining the benefits of cranberries. What these people may not realize is that 70 to 75 percent of the coctail is added water and sweeteners. This is in addition to the juice which is already mostly water. In order to obtain the desired benefits of cranberries, one would have to drink a tremendous amount of cranberry juice cocktail. Drinking large amounts of cranberry juice cocktail can add a lot of calories to the diet.CranActin® Cranberry AFTM ExtractIs the leading cranberry dietary supplement sold in health food stores. What makes the CranActin® AFTM extract unique is that it is the first commercial cranberry supplement to be tested for and guaranteed to contain cranberry"s bacterial antiadherence activity. The CranActin® supplement is supported by pharmacokinetic and clinical researchCranberry ~ a new understandingA theory formulated in the early part of this century suggested that the benefit of the food cranberry might be linked to its acidic nature. This is referred to by some people as the "acid theory" However, by the late 1950"s the acid theory was invalidated. Later it was shown that compounds in cranberries, not related to the acids, are able to keep E. coli bacteria from sticking to the bladder cells. This property is called "bacterial antiadherence activity". While other cranberry supplements emphasize their acidic nature, CranActin® Cranberry AFTM Extract is guaranteed to contain the bacterial antiadherence activity.