Food and medication
Cranberry and medication
Large amounts of cranberry juice or cranberry supplements may increase the effect of warfarin.
2 medicines on our checker are affected. Tap a medicine for every food and drink that matters with it.
Take care cranberry with these medicines
- Warfarin · coumarin, vitamin k antagonist
Cranberry juice and supplements can increase warfarin’s effect. A spoon of cranberry sauce with a meal is unlikely to matter.
Fine cranberry with these medicines
- DOACs · apixaban, eliquis, rivaroxaban
Cranberry matters for warfarin, not for DOACs.
Foods and drinks that count as cranberry
- Cranberry juice
- Cranberry supplements
- Dried cranberries
- Cranberry sauce
- Cranberries
Common questions
- Which medicines does cranberry affect?
- 2 medicines on our checker: Warfarin (take care), DOACs (fine).
- Which foods count as cranberry?
- Cranberry juice, Cranberry supplements, Dried cranberries, Cranberry sauce, Cranberries.
General information from NHS medicine pages and drug labels, not medical advice. Always follow your prescriber, pharmacist or the leaflet with your medicine. How we check.