My local supermarkets have been selling cherries rather cheaply and I have been buying them ever since the price dropped.

From time to time in recent years I've had a painful joint in my foot, which - despite my diet and drinking habits - seemed to be a classic, but fortunately mild attack of gout.

I have been free of 'twinges' for far longer than usual - and coincidentally found an advert for a cherry elixir supposed to cure gout by increasing the output of uric acid. Apparently some component of cherries increases its solubility.

Purely in the spirit of scientific interest, and firmly convinced that a few cherries every day are going to cause no damage to anyone who is mindful of the stones, I would suggest that anyone afflicted with the annoyance of gout obtains a supply and discovers for themselves the efficacy - or not - of this supposed cure.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: