tart cherry and Improved Muscle Strength

• Effects of Tart Cherry Juice Supplementation on Recovery from Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage in Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2026-04-07
  • Systematic Review
  • Sports medicine - open 12(1)
  • • Wael Daab
    • Mohamed Amine Bouzid
    • George P Nassis
    • Ashokan Arumugam
    • Achraf Ammar
    • Haris Pojskić
    • Abd-Elbasset Abaïdia

  • PubMed: 41945263
  • DOI: 10.1186/s40798-026-00993-3

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Muscle Strength

  • High evidence
  • Athletes

  TC juice supplementation significantly improved MVC recovery in the main analysis across all time points (post: ES = 0.63; 24 h: ES = 1.12; 48 h: ES = 1.29; 72 h: ES = 2.14; 96 h: ES = 4.82), with substantial heterogeneity (I² 69-93%).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes