what are Pomegranate?

Answer 1

Pomegranates are a fruit that grows on shrubs that can get very large. They are red, kind of ball shaped approx. 5-6 inches across and have small "kernels" of seeds inside that you shell out to eat. They are delicious. Right now they are ripe on the trees here in California. Beware that the juice stains clothing and it will squirt out when you are shelling them.

Answer 2

Pomegranate is a fruit native from the Mediterranean region since ancient times. It's also call punic apple, granatapfel, granada, grenade, melograno, melagrana.
The fruit has a thick-leathery skin. The interior is separated by membranous walls and white spongy, bitter tissue into compartments packed with sacs filled with hard seeds with sweetly acid, juicy, citrus flavor pulp.
FRUIT SELECTION: Fruits should be plump and round, heavy for their size, with a rich, fresh color and should be free of cuts and blemishes. Larger fruits promise more juice, since every pomegranate is composed of exactly 840 seeds..
HOW TO PEEL, SEED AND JUICE POMEGRANATES? FIRST cut off the crown and divide the fruit in half. With a spoon tap the skin, the juicy seeds would fall. SECOND and pulse the pips in a blender with short bursts and strain.
FYI:
○ Grenadine, a thick red syrup used in kiddie drinks and cocktails, is made from pomegranates .
○ The Pomegranate juice will stain not only your fingers but also your clothes, that is why it has been used as a natural dye by many cultures. The juice will also stain plastic containers, so use glass or disposable plastic bags or containers.
○ Avoid using aluminum and carbon steel knives or cooking vessels with pomegranates as they can turn the juice bitter.
○ For it's citrus flavor, try substituting it in citrus marinades, either whole or in part, for a flavor change.
MEDICINE:
It's believe that pomegranate has anitoxidant, anti-viral, anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties. Also, that it helps maintaining healthy cholesterol and tryglyceride levels, etc.
SOME MYTH:
○ Many Christian and Jewish mystics believe that the Pomegranate tree is the true Tree of Life and that it was a Pomegranate and not an Apple which Eve enjoyed.
○ The Pomegranate was a symbol of the Goddess of Love and Beauty :Aphrodite in ancient Greece and of Venus in Rome.

Answer 3

Pomegranate is a fruit in which all youi eat is the seeds the rest is like a leather material. It is very good you just pick out the purple seeds and eat them. If you see in a store kinda looks like a big apple until you get up close to it. the seeds are tangy.

Answer 4

Mmmm it's the most delicious exotic fruit I ever tasted! It's a red round (like an orange) fruit that you peel (hard to do that!) to get to the berries inside. Red scrumptiously sweet seeded berries, all over!

Answer 5

They are a type of fruit. They are in season now so you can find them in the fresh produce section of your grocery store. They are a roundish fruit that is full of little seeds. You can either eat the seeds or squeeze juice out of them.

Answer 6

A Fruit

Answer 7

A fruit with many juicy pod-like seeds, representing fertility in old Flemish art.

Answer 8

here i'll give you the definition off of www.dictionary.com

-a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.

Answer 9

What are not pomeganates? They are tasty fruit, but you only eat the seeds, which taste sweet and are a ruby red.

Answer 10

They are sooooooo good, get one at a grocery store and try it, they are in season now, you break it open and put all the pretty red fruits in a bowel, you'll be hooked!