Research · Systematic review
Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections
What it found
Cranberry products reduced UTI risk overall (RR 0.70) and in women with recurrent UTIs (RR 0.74) — a modest, moderate-certainty benefit; this updated review is more favourable than the 2012 edition.
- Design
- Systematic review
- Year
- 2023
- Sample size
- 8,857
- Population
- pooled across 50 RCTs; recurrent-UTI subgroup is women with a history of recurrent UTIs
- Intervention
- cranberry products (juice, capsules, or tablets)
- Outcome
- incidence of symptomatic, culture-verified urinary tract infection
- Journal
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.