Description

Pomegranate Fruit
 
.The pomegranate has a thick outer skin that is reddish in color. It can be small like an orange or as large as a grapefruit. To eat a pomegranate, you first cut it open with a knife and you will see the arils, or seed casings, which are red in color. The arils have a delicious sweet and sour taste. They come encased in a white peel, which people usually discard.
You can juice the  **0 or so arils of a pomegranate and drink the juice plain. You will need several large pomegranates to make a glass of juice. Some people will dilute the juice with water so that it is not so concentrated. The Persian culture, where the pomegranate first originated, cooks with pomegranate juice, mixing it into a popular local stew called fesenjan, which is made

The pomegranate is a good source of riboflavin, niacin, thiamin, vitamin C, phosphorus and calcium. The antioxidant capability of the pomegranate is even more potent than in green tea and red wine. This makes pomegranate juice effective in cancer prevention, preventing cell damage from free radicals. The antioxidants in pomegranate juice also have anti-aging benefits for the skin.