In the growing panorama of food supplements for sportsmen, an increasingly important trend is emerging, relating to the improvement of the complex processes of muscle and neuroendocrine recovery. Among these elements, recently, thanks to an interesting and specific literature in favor, the Tart Montmorency Cherry Extract emerges, endowed with a concentrate of anthocyanins with a very high antioxidant and anti-inflammatory power which translates into an acceleration in the recovery processes for the athlete , understood as a decrease in inflammatory and oxidative markers, faster healing from muscle and joint pain, and more effective rest. Factors that place the resumption of physical activity in the most ideal possible condition.

ll Tart Cherry Extract is an extract with very interesting beneficial properties which derives from a particular form of sour cherry with a rather light colour, of the "Montmorency cherry" species, which grows or is cultivated in certain defined parts of the world. The potential benefits of this extract originate from the numerous phytochemicals found in this "berry", whose first to emerge was related to the treatment of gout, being capable of lowering uric acid levels, up to having a literature clinical situation that focuses on several other possible application scenarios in the nutracetic field. This is thanks to a high concentration of polyphenols and anthocyanins, which has favored the interest of research on their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immunostimulant, neuroprotective power and on promoting a more restful sleep. The data that emerges demonstrate several precious potential beneficial effects on health also in the field of performance, thanks in particular to the "anthocyanins", which characterize the light red pigment of the skin.

Anthocyanins are also present in different types of berries, such as raspberries and blueberries, or even in apples, or grapes. But this "powerful" typology is an exclusive component of the Montmorency black cherry extract (cyanidin-3-glucosylrutinoside, cyanidin-3-rutinoside, peonidin) which are also capable of acting in synergy with other flavonoids it contains (quercetin, acid chlorogenic, kaempferol) and enhance its effects. The first feature of these anthocyanins is that they are powerful antioxidants which, in addition to promoting cellular health in general, are potential elements for maintaining cardiac health, with neuroprotective effects, whose synergistic anti-inflammatory action has shown to be a new supplement in favor of a faster recovery of muscle function after intense physical exercise, and in knowing how to promote performance itself, as well as helping to produce more endogenous melatonin, therefore also effective in improving the quality of sleep, another fundamental element for recovery of an athlete.

In recent years, in favor of the TartCherry Extract there are many positive data that have emerged from specific research on sportsmen, regarding the fact that they can be a real natural aid to accelerate recovery processes, strength and muscle function after muscle activity, intervening in the alleviation of post-exercise pain, in osteo-articular pain and stiffness, favored by its anti-inflammatory effect which is added to the antioxidant one. The suggestion of use is after training or in the evening, when the whole body "positions itself" on the recovery and healing processes, even if the extract of this so "special" black cherry can also be used in directly on prolonging performance and promoting greater blood flow to the muscles, thus promoting oxygenation, nourishment and the removal of acid waste generated by physical exercise.