I've been eating a lot of cherries lately, and was wondering what health benefits, if any, I was accruing. This nutritional summary for sherries, sweet, raw is amazingly comprehensive! I can't believe I haven't been to NutrionData before. It's going to be my source from now on whenever I need any info about an ingredient. And it turns out those cherries are a good source of vitamin C and fiber, which is what I'd suspected.

Posted on June 21, 2007

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Meg,

There is also a site called world's healthiest foods (www.whfoods.org) that is a great resource for nutrition information. It provides research (with sources) as well as nutrition data, and I find it very useful.

...says Darcy on 06/24/07 at 7:33 PM

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