Learn About The Pomegranate Fruit And Its Health Benefits

in steemiteducation •  7 years ago 

Hello fellow Steemians, it is always a pleasure greeting you through my posts while sharing knowledge and information. In this post I would like to discuss the benefits of Pomegranate fruit and what it can be used for.

Introducing the Pomegranate Fruit

Pomegranates flourish in areas that have tropical climates. The fruit has a unique skin which is pink in colour when ripe. The fruit covers the seeds in a thin layer, making it quite a different fruit to eat.
Besides being tasty and quite a refreshing fruit, pomegranates are incredibly useful when keeping healthy and is often used for beauty treatments.

Useful Resources Found in Pomegranate Seeds:

  • Vitamin C

  • Vitamin A

  • Iron

  • Antioxidants

Since the pomegranate has very thin pulp, usually the consumption and calculation of pomegranate nutrition is done along with the seeds. In half a serving of pomegranate seeds with aril skin, there are about 72 calories, 1.5 grams of protein, 16 grams of carbohydrate, 3.5 grams of pangandan and 0 r of body fat. In addition, there are also as many as 16% vitamin K and 10% vitamin C of the recommended daily intake for adults.source

  1. The benefits of vitamin C for the body
    Vitamin C found in pomegranates helps improve digestion and prevent canker sores, to name but a few of its uses, it also has many other uses.
  2. The benefits of Vitamin A for the body
    Vitamin A helps with eye-sight and the development of the brain. It aids in preventing hair loss, repairs damaged cells in the body and helps to keep skin healthy.
  3. The benefits of iron for the body
    Iron plays an important role in the human body and assists to maintain good stamina and prevent or maintain endurance from disease. It can fight free radicals too!
  4. Antioxidants
    Antioxidants found in pomegranates can lower bad cholesterol (LDL) and increase good cholesterol (HDL) in the human body, they also keep the skin from premature aging and from becoming wrinkled and dull.
    There are also important substances found in the skin of the fruit, please see th reference below:

The skin contains:
alkaloids pelletierene,
granatin,
betulic acid,
ursolic acid,
isoquercitrin,
elligatanin,
resin,
triterpenoid,
calcium oxalate
starch
source

Benefits of Pomegranates for Pregnant Women

Pregnant women will find that pomegranates are a vital source of food, especially because it can boost the immune system and the development of foetuses. This fruit is believed to assist in the prevention of miscarriages.

Maintain Weight with Pomegranates

Pomegranate juice helps with dehydration, but it also assists in burning calories and helping with weight loss.
Various content contained in the pomegranate is still very much if kept in the more modern.
As in pomegranate skin also contains:

How to Consume Pomegranates for Health Benefits

Some people consume pomegranates in the usual way, by opening the fruit and chewing on it, then spitting out the seeds. You can however also make a juice out of it to drink.

In Conclusion

From the above discussion it can be concluded that pomegranates are a very healthy food source. It is not only a fruit that bears a beautiful colour and is delicious to eat, but it also offers a variety of benefits for ones health.

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Pomegranate is often called a fruit from Heaven due to its health benefits.

I had a Pomegranate tree and I really liked its taste. here in my country is called "granada" that good to know that I fed well haha.