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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/berry-good-news-about-cranberries/">Berry Good News about Cranberries</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 25, 2008 at 09:00 AM by Martha Jones</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">The following article is written by Lisa Marie Mercer The colorful cranberry is synonymous with holiday happiness. This festive fruit has some interesting folklore surrounding its name. The story begins on November 20th, 1620, when a group of people called the pilgrims landed at a place known as Plymouth Rock. When they arrived, the Native Americans presented them with an odd-looking fruit, whose blossoms were shaped like the head of a crane. This inspired the pilgrims to call the fruit the cranberry.&nbsp; The pilgrims soon learned that the Native Americans made a survival cake called pemmican, which was composed of cranberries, dry deer meat and melted fat. They discovered that the Native Americans had a strong belief in the cranberries’ medicinal properties. As such, they concocted…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/berry-good-news-about-cranberries/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/berry-good-news-about-cranberries/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/berry-good-news-about-cranberries/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/berry-good-news-about-cranberries/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a><br /><br /> </P>