Cranberry Extract: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Cranberry Extract is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Solution
- Sold as
- Cranberry
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
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Every cranberry extract product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Cranberry.
What people report to the FDA about cranberry extract
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 411 reports naming cranberry extract, and the FDA flagged 64% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- fall42 reports
- fatigue29 reports
- nausea29 reports
- dizziness27 reports
- urinary tract infection27 reports
- diarrhoea25 reports
- constipation24 reports
- headache23 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean cranberry extract caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
What is cranberry extract?
A berry extract popularly taken to support urinary-tract health.
Can you take cranberry extract with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run cranberry extract against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does cranberry extract come in?
Across the brands we track, cranberry extract is currently marketed as solution, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic cranberry extract?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled cranberry extract product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Cranberry Extract: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/cranberry-extract
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- “Cranberry Extract: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/cranberry-extract.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for cranberry extract on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.