Pomegranate, In-Fashion Fruit Ever

Besides being luscious and fabulously healthy, pomegranates have a romantic history. It is one of the oldest known fruits and frequently referred to in Greek myths and bible stories. It has been said, that Persephone, the daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter, was kidnapped by Hades, the lord of the underworld. She had to spend several months of the year in the underworld for punishment, as she was charmed with a couple of pomegranate seeds just before being rescued back to earth. According to the myth, earth was forced to tolerate winter while Persephone was underground with Hades.

Ingredients for the salad
¾ bowl of salad leaves according your taste
Seeds os a big pomegranate
½ cup of cottage cheese
¼ cup of chopped pecan nuts or pine nuts

Ingredients for the dressing
1 tbsp of olive oil
2 tbsps of wholegrain mustard
1 tbsp of honey
1 tsp of lemon juice

Preparation

1. Put all ingredients together in a bowl, then go along to prepare the sweet mustard dressing
2. Whisk the dressing ingredients until good commingled. Pour the dressing over the salad ingredients and mix everything. Serve immediately.

Did you know that one pomegranate contains three times the antioxidant properties of red wine or green tea?

The pomegranate is slowly receiving a status of a topnotch fruit because of its semipermanent health benefits of eating the fruit or with drinking its juice. Each pomegranate can contain about 800 red jewel-like seeds, carrying vitamin C that adds up to more or less 40% of an adult's every day requirement. Additionally it contains vitamin A and E, fibre, iron and potassium.

An increasing list of late analyses is demonstrating what anchestors have known for many years, that the pomegranate is beneficial for our health.

• Pomegranate carries antioxidants and antiinflammatory attributes that assist in strenghtening the immune system


• Pomegranate has a salutary result on heart diseases and stroke, as it appears that steady drinking of pomegranate helps reducing the size of atherosclerotic lesions which narrow the arteries.


• Pomegranate can serve fighting osteoporosis as it assists to retard the impairment of cartilage.


• Pomegranate can decelerate prostate cancer as pomegranates contain antioxidants that may have cancer-preventing benefits.


• Pomegranate may help to bring down cholesterol.


• Pomegranate may assist to bring down blood pressure among people with hypertension.


• Pomegranate might serve to protect unborn babies from brain defects, like those stimulated by low oxygen.


• Pomegranate helps keeping a healthy skin. The antioxidants in a pomegranate can assist to prevent untimely aging as they can serve in slowing down the formation of wrinkles.

When buying pomegranates, select the bigger and weightier ones, as they will hold more juice. As soon as they have developed their typical color and a metallic sound can be heard when they are knocked, they are usually ripe. It is best to eat them at room temperature, although pomegranates will keep longer if refrigerated.