Does drinking cherry juice help relieve gout pain?

As of 2015, research about the efficacy of cherries in various forms to treat gout is promising but not conclusive. The Arthritis Foundation lists cherries as a good food to reduce gout flares, citing several small studies from 2010 to 2014, but making no specific mention of pain reduction.

The foundation bases its claims on a 2012 study from Boston University Medical Center, a 2014 study in the

Journal of Functional Foods, and a 2010 study presented at the European League Against Rheumatism, stating that researchers attribute the beneficial effects to anthocyanin, a type of plant pigment with anti-inflammatory properties. All of these studies show promising results, but the sample groups are too small to make strong claims of statistical accuracy, according to the Arthritis Foundation.