My wife now knows not to insist on pure cranberry juice, but rather to request a 100% juice blend and not "cocktail" (the cocktail is what the juice blend goes in). I finished the battery acid myself over the course of a few weeks, out of pure Floridaman cussedness. It was not pleasant.
Just cut it with equal parts vodka and ice.
That is the exact use case for which it was an abysmal failure.
After a couple I don't taste shit anyways.
You just mix this with water to get what you want. It's much cheaper than the sugary cocktail crap that's mostly apple juice anyway.
If it's not sweet enough, you can add sugar.
My wife loves tart cherry juice. The good stuff. So I kind of know what you mean
Tart cherry juice is great. Easily drink it straight.
I'll add water to cranberry juice though.
Uh, which good stuff I do not know my cherry juices
I like it mixed with bubbly water.
On the plus side, after they combine, you can poop twice as efficiently because it'll burn you an extra butthole, LOL.
More seriously, at what ratio? The running theme here seems to be that it should be nowhere near the top of an ingredients list.
10-20% total max.
Equal parts vodka and juice, top with bubbly water, so about an ounce or two.
If you’ve got a UTI, it’s fantastic until you can get antibiotics. I don’t know why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7824375/
Just drinking a lot of water is the best non-antibiotic treatment. Cranberry juice does not significantly impact an active UTI infection. Other much smaller studies indicate that it may be helpful, but the more robust studies show no real help.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29046404/
Other studies do show that cranberry juice can help reduce future UTI occurances though.
My ex had several UTIs and she said the cranberry helped the pain more than anything.
My wife also swears by it, but I'm curious if objective testing might reveal if it's actually relieving pain, or if the act of drinking this stuff is temporarily raising one's pain tolerance to the degree that the UTI pain doesn't seem so bad.
why anyone would otherwise choose to drink it.
Mix in powdered magic mushrooms. Works like lemontek to make the trip shorter and more intense, and masks the difficult-to-get-down flavour.
You can also take cranberry pills for the uti. We tried this route for my sil's uti. Whoopsie poopsie it turned out to be the beetus and we made it worse.
If you know your pancreas is healthy, go for it but those Rx uti pills are cheap and effective if you get them on the reg
I kept looking for pure cranberry juice and could never find it. Always blended stuff. Finally found it and quickly found out why it's always blended.
Seriously though you get used it and I think it tastes pretty good now. It's certainly out of place in our everything-is-sweetened food industry though.
I love that stuff, but yeah for sure it's a real punch in the salivary glands.
That's a mixer, not a shooter
Any liquid's a shooter if you shoot it.
By that logic you could have a “shot” of straight vodka!
I mean - you can see how that’d be crazy, right.
At least once!
Or if it shoots you. Eh? Think about it.
lol I remember the first time I tried pure cranberry juice
That stuff is amazing and delicious, but you havrnto cut it and add sweetness.
Or buy a product where they've already done that for you. This shit should not be sold on the juice aisle. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
LOL, Nope! Not takin' the hit on this one!
Edit: Zimbabwe is on point. Credit to @krashmo@lemmy.world
Given the title and being a plastic bottle, I was expecting:
Ahh, El Diablo's kool-aid...
Sure does smell nice on floors, though.
I should try this, I feel like it's not as bad as you guys all make it sound
It's really not lol. You can tell in this thread those who do a bunch of sugar and those who don't
It’s drier than I enjoy my wine, but it’s not undrinkable or anything. I would dilute it, just because I would assume that it already has a lot of sugar.
Though my uncle worked auditing cranberry bogs for the MA government (I now realize this might have been kid logic- he did something with cranberries as a state employee, I don’t know exactly what), so I grew up eating cranberries in all their forms.
Well that's because you got sprouts brand not the crantastic Oceanspray
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