Drinking cherry juice significantly improves both the quality and duration of sleep, according to new findings from Northumbria University.

Researchers from the School of Life Sciences have found that Montmorency cherry juice significantly increases the levels of melatonin in the body, the hormone which regulates sleep, and could benefit those who have difficulty sleeping due to insomnia, shift work or jet lag. Their findings, which are published this week in the online edition of the European Journal of Nutrition, reveal that people who have consumed cherry juice not only sleep for longer, but they also have improved quality of sleep, or ‘sleep efficiency’.

From the A Good Night's Sleep blog (trivia: The blog is on one of my university sites, running a later version of the Zone software)

Interesting result. I frequently find myself restive late at night, and since I like cherry juice anyway, I'm looking forward to giving it a try. Thanks, Eri!