Pomegranate

Pomegranate fruit is one of the most popular, nutritionally rich fruit with unique flavour, taste, and heath promoting characteristics. A small tree growing 6 to 10 m high, the pomegranate has multiple spiny branches, and is extremely long-lived, with some specimens in India surviving for 200 years. After the pomegranate is opened by scoring it with a knife and breaking it open, the seeds are separated from the peel and internal white pulp membranes.

Pomegranate can be recognized by its round shape, hard and shiny yellow or red coloured skin and by it that contains around 600 small edible seeds. The edible seeds have a red, fleshy cover and have a sweet/sour flavour. Both the seeds and flesh are embedded in a clear membrane. Although the membrane is also edible, it has no flavour and is typically not eaten.

Besides the whole pomegranate we also carry the Ready- to-Eat arils in our assortment. In pomegranate many nutrients are like Antioxidants, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Vitamin C and E. Pomegranate Taste is sweet. Pomegranate seeds are peeled and separated seeds from the pomegranate fruit.

It is a good source of soluble and insoluble dietary fibers, providing about 4 g per 100 g (about 12% of RDA), which aid in smooth digestion. Total antioxidant strength of pomegranate fruit measured in terms of its oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) is 2341 µmol TE/100 g. Regular consumption of pomegranate has also been found to be effective against prostate cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), diabetes, and lymphoma.