My wife now knows not to insist on pure cranberry juice, but rather to request a 100% juice blend and not “cocktail” (the cocktail is what the juice blend goes in). I finished the battery acid myself over the course of a few weeks, out of pure Floridaman cussedness. It was not pleasant.
You can also take cranberry pills for the uti. We tried this route for my sil’s uti. Whoopsie poopsie it turned out to be the beetus and we made it worse.
If you know your pancreas is healthy, go for it but those Rx uti pills are cheap and effective if you get them on the reg