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This Common Fruit Juice Could Be Great for Your Teeth, New Research Finds

A small study found that unsweetened cranberry juice reduced harmful oral bacteria, suggesting a possible new way to fight plaque.

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For most Americans, cranberries are the fruit you think about only at Thanksgiving and when you get a UTI. But if you incorporate cranberries a bit more often, you may have much less plaque on your teeth.

That’s because researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago, who published their findings in Scientific Reports, found that cranberries seem to be one of Mother Nature’s favorite cleaning agents, as a compound in cranberry juice seems to be great at removing plaque buildup on your teeth.

Led by pediatric dentist Christine Wu, the UIC team recruited........

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