Tart cherry for recovery: the dose the research actually uses
The athlete’s standby, minus the juice sugar. What Montmorency tart cherry is, what studies typically dose, and how a gummy gets there.
Recovery research on tart cherry centers on the Montmorency variety, usually as juice twice a day or a concentrated extract in the hundreds of milligrams. Muscle Recovery carries 480 mg of a 10:1 Montmorency extract per serving — a real dose of the post-effort classic, without drinking your calories.†
why athletes keep coming back to a pie cherry
Montmorency tart cherry has been a post-effort standby for years — marathoners, lifters, people whose legs write checks their next morning has to cash. It’s one of the most-studied foods in the recovery conversation, typically taken around training days.†
the dose problem with juice
The classic study protocol is juice — often a bottle in the morning and another after training. That works, but it’s a lot of sugar and a lot of carrying. Concentrates fix the logistics: a 10:1 extract means the fruit is concentrated ten-fold, so hundreds of milligrams of extract stand in for a meaningful amount of fruit.
- Muscle Recovery: 480 mg Montmorency 10:1 extract per 2-gummy serving.
- Plus 100 mg magnesium as bisglycinate — the gentle form evenings like.†
- Plus potassium and sodium — the electrolytes the effort spent.
the honest frame
No gummy replaces sleep, protein, or doing less than everything every single day. Recovery is a routine, and routines live or die on friction. Ours is designed to be the lowest-friction part of yours: chew two after the effort, taste a finish line, repeat tomorrow.†
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The post-effort classics at honest doses — for legs that did something about it today.
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