Pomegranate

My mother have a pomegranate plant in the balcony but I did not know that pomegranate contains many health benefits till recently. The pomegranate fruit have enjoyed much admiration throughout history for its mystical shape, multitude of seeds and its medicinal properties. Pomegranate is known to represent the sign of fertility and its leaves are believed to thwart off bad luck in the eastern culture.. The pomegranate is a round hexagonal fruit. Inside the thick reddish skin contains the pulp of 600 seeds called arils. Pomegranate can be eaten on its own, made in to juices or as a flavour enhancer in cooking. The many health benefits of ...  Read the complete review

I love fruit and especially fruits that are from hotter countries, they tend to be a lot sweeter. One of my favourites is the pomegranate; this has recently become really popular in the U.K after people discovered that it has very good health properties. I have been eating them for years, to me, they taste best when you pick them freshly yourself but seeing as I can't yet afford to emigrate I'm putting up with just buying them from Tesco's for 99p each. I know that might sound like a lot for one fruit but it's worth it. The only problem is that they are normally only available to buy from August until November because that's when they are ripe. They grow in ...  Read the complete review

POMEGRANATE When I was a child my mum always used to treat us to a pomegranate during the winter months, we would cut them open and use a pin to extract the seeds! This was messy, but fun and we looked forward to this time of year when we knew pomegranates would be in the greengrocers. I refer to the fruit insides as “seeds” but these are really sacs of juice, with only a tiny hard seed in them, you can eat all of this seed “sac”. As I have grown up I still enjoy pomegranates but nowadays I prefer to cut them open and extract the seeds by tearing off the skin. I could not believe it when a friend of mine, the same age as myself, had never eaten a ...  Read the complete review