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About 400 million pounds of cranberries are used in the United States each year. These are consumed fresh, dried, or processed into various products like juices, sauces, and snacks.
People eat cranberries at Thanksgiving because they are a food that would have been served at the first Thanksgiving, which is commemorated on Thanksgiving Day each November. The early settlers would have used cranberries to preserve their meat.
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cranberries were important because they used it for paint they would squash it and then paint
Cranberries are generally used for eating and put in puddings, cheese, biscuits, cakes etc
635 million tonnes a year (2006 figures)
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Canadian and US sailors used cranberries to prevent scurvy. On a weight by weight basis, cranberries have almost twice as much vitamin C as do limes.
cranberries do contain sulfa. Sulfa is used in anti-biotics. Cranberry juice contains sulfa which is also a drug used in the manufacture of anti-biotics
Approximately 95,567,100 pounds
The pounds used in the United States have 16 ounces each, so to convert ounces to pounds, you need to divide by 16.
Native Americans used cranberries to make Poultice. This was a long time ago i don't know the recipie! Does this question help you?