Pomegranate
History Of Pomegranate
Pomegranate In My Garden
Pomegranate Blossom
Salad With Pomegranate Seeds
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
- Put all ingredients together in a bowl, then go along to prepare the sweet mustard dressing
- Whisk the dressing ingredients until good commingled. Pour the dressing over the salad ingredients and mix everything. Serve immediately.
- Fried Bulgur with Peas and Pomegranate
- The ingredients were a mix of leftovers, pantry items and the pomegranate the toddler and I cleaned this morning. Bear with me as I try to describe.
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Pomegranate, The Healthy Fruit
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.
Pomegranate For Your Health
Talking About Pomegranate
The pomegranate (, Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to between five and eight meters tall. The pomegranate is native to Southwest Asia and has been cultivated in the Caucasus since ancient times. It is widely cultivated throughout Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, the drier parts of southeast Asia, Peninsular Malaysia, the East Indies, and tropical Africa.Purdue New Crops Profile Introduced into Latin America and California by Spanish settlers in 1769, pomegranate is now cultivated in parts of California and Arizona for juice production.Pomegranate. California Rare Fruit Growers
In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from Septe...
Tips For Pomegranates
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.
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papawu wrote...
Great stuff. I have been eating this fruit since I was a kid and before it was chic. I like the tart potency of it although it does tend to stain your fingers when eating them by hand.
Posted May 11, 2009
tandemonimom wrote...
What a tasty-looking lens! We had a pomegranate tree when I was growing up. Delicious! Welcome to the new Real Food group on Squidoo!
Posted January 02, 2009
Kate wrote
Hey Pomegranate Lovers,
I thought you might be interested to know about a recipe contest POM Wonderful has going on right now. Just submit your most fabulous recipe using Fresh POM Pomegranates to www.pomfresh.com/recipe and you could win $5000. Good luck and please feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
-Kate with POM Wonderful
Posted November 19, 2008
eccles1 wrote...
This fruit is so so beautiful the seeds inside are like jewels and always reminds me of my grandmother she always had these for us growing up
Posted November 19, 2008
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