Dietary fruits and arthritis

Basu A, Schell J, Scofield RH · Food & Function

Gathers the whole-fruit arthritis literature in one place and finds it consistently directional and consistently small: reduced pain and inflammatory markers across berry and pomegranate studies, with trial sizes in the dozens.

Population

Preclinical, clinical and epidemiological studies of fruit polyphenols in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

Intervention

Whole fruits — blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, pomegranate

Comparator

Varies

Limitations

Narrative review without risk-of-bias assessment or pooling, written by the authors of the strawberry trial it features.