Our colleague Ben Cohen won't stop talking about cranberries.

I was so fascinated by big cranberry. Like everything I learned about cranberries, I was so fascinated by big cranberry like everything I learned about cranberries I was just like going around to everyone last week being like did you know this about cranberries?

Yeah, you sound like you're becoming a cranberry stand.

Do you know what the top five selling cranberry products in 2022 were?

I do not. Please enlighten me. Okay. Number one. 60, I'm not going to do it in order actually because I want to say the best

for less 64 ounce cranberry juice cocktail okay a hundred percent cranberry

juice is also on the list. 64 ounce cranberry grape is a fan favorite I would not have

guessed that. Three liters cranberry juice cocktail so the three liters and the

64 ounce both making on the list and then also on the list 14

ounce jellied cranberry sauce that good old classic.

And this week is huge for that good old classic canned cranberry sauce.

They really do appear on the table of like every home in America during Thanksgiving.

It's like, you know, this thing like pops up

out of nowhere once a year and it has this place in all of our hearts and, you know,

maybe some of our stomachs. The company that invented it is ocean spray. It does $2 billion in

cranberry sales a year and it produces 65% of the cranberries in the world.

The ingredients to its success include 700 families, a major

bury panic, and some very hip grandma's. Welcome to the Journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Jessica Mendoza.

It's Wednesday, November 22nd. Coming up on the show, the show, the company behind your can of cranberry sauce. us.

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