Inflammation is the repair crew, and not the villain of the story. The heat, the swelling and the tenderness are that crew arriving at the site, working, and then going home.

Sour cherries carry anthocyanins, the deep red pigment compounds that give the fruit its colour. Cold-extracted and never heated, Ravea puts 360mg of a 10:1 extract into every serving, standardised to 60mg of those anthocyanins, two capsules a day.

Inflammation that overstays releases the enzymes breaking down the cartilage cushion between the bones — that is "damage", and it gathers quietly, leaving you two problems instead of one.

Ravea is aimed at the pain rather than at the picture, because an X-ray shows only the damage already done, and no X-ray anywhere shows you inflammation at all.

When cherries arrive as juice, the sugar arrives with them — 25 to 60 grams a glass, even though the ache is what sent you there.

Ravea's two capsules carry no sugar at all, because sugar drives the inflammation you drank the cherry to settle, and a glass gives with one hand while taking with the other.

Those anthocyanins are not a tough compound. Those hot, fast extractions are cheap to run and quick to finish, and the heat drives the pigment off long before it ever reaches the capsule you are paying good money for.

Ravea is cold-extracted and never heated, which is the slower way and the dearer way to fill a bottle, and it is the only way we were willing to fill this particular one.

"Tart cherry" on a label names a plant, a fruit that grew somewhere, a harvest that happened, and nothing much more precise than that. They're vague, unmeasured, and silent on the actual amount.

Ravea is standardised to 60mg of anthocyanins per serving, measured batch after batch. Roughly the amount you would find in about a dozen sour cherries. That's why the number is printed on the label instead of being merely implied.

Every batch of Ravea goes out to an independent laboratory for testing. Not the first batch, not a flattering batch, every batch that leaves the building. There is nothing else inside either, no fillers, no blend, no list of extras. Just tart cherry extract.

With over 10,000 bottles sold, a 90-day money-back guarantee behind every one, Ravea is the plain choice for women who want the cherry itself and nothing else, without the sugar, the glass, or the guesswork.