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PLANT PROFILE | pomegranate The gem-like arils inside the fruit 18 | Good Organic Gardening
pomegranate | PLANT PROFILE Ruby red If eggplant is the “crazy apple”, pomegranate is apparently the “seeded apple”, so named for its crimson jewel-like arils, the only edible part of the plant Words Kerry Boyne I’d been using pomegranate molasses in recipes long before I ever bought a fresh pomegranate to throw its exploding ruby-red seeds into a salad. And what a revelation it was. It brought that salad alive. Perhaps luckily, this fruit has a limited season (late summer/autumn) because I’d run the risk of getting sick of it after putting the gemlike arils in just about every salad. I use them in desserts, too. Some favourite cookbook-writing chefs — Karen Martini and Yotam Ottolenghi, for example — use both the fresh fruit and the molasses a lot because both are inspired by Middle Eastern cuisine: Australianborn Martini is from an Italian/Tunisian background, while Ottolenghi is Israeli by birth and now a famous UK restaurateur. A Persian staple, pomegranate (Punica granatum) originated in the eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, Afghanistan and Iran. It became much more widespread, from the Middle East to the Americas to India and Asia. A Sri Lankan colleague recalls picking them from the tree as kids, breaking them open and eating them, their hands and faces stained with the scarlet juice. Pomegranates can be messy for sure, but you become very adept at releasing the seeds from the white pith without effort or mess. Pomegranates can be messy for sure, but you become very adept at releasing the seeds from the white pith without effort or mess. In French, it's called grenade — hence the term for the military bomb that resembles it While its Latin name translates as “seeded apple”, the pomegranate is actually a true berry, hence its colour (attributed to the presence of anthocyanins) and sweet, tangy lusciousness. Health benefits Like all berries, pomegranates confer many health benefits. They are a very rich source of vitamin C and other antioxidants and have been shown to help protect against Alzheimer’s disease and certain cancers. The compounds in pomegranates responsible for most of the health benefits are punicalagins, which are very powerful antioxidants, and punicic acid, the main type of fatty acid in the fruit. The pomegranate’s anti-inflammatory action makes it helpful in a range of diseases and conditions, including arthritis, breast and prostate cancers, type 2 diabetes and heart Did you know? Though the name of the Spanish city of Granada comes from an Arabic term that has nothing to do with pomegranate, its coat of arms features the fruit — in Spanish, granata. The juice has been found to improve memory Good Organic Gardening | 19
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