NUTRITIONIST’S NOTEBOOK: Pomegranate
Unmistakable in both its appearance and taste, the pomegranate is a nutritional treasure trove.
If you’ve ever been to the Mediterranean, chances are you came across pomegranate trees – or shrubs to be precise – every now and then. They are native to the Middle East but have been cultivated in South Asia, North Africa and the Mediterranean for millennia.
The anatomy of a pomegranate
Each pomegranate fruit has a hard outer rind, a spongy underlayer which holds and cushions the seeds, and membranes that divide the inside of the fruit into asymmetrical chambers. That means there is no universal rule for
