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Pomegranate juice contains many useful substances, it is advised to drink it for general improvement of the body, speedy recovery after illness, to strengthen the immune system. It helps to fight many diseases – from tonsillitis to hypertension, relieves atherosclerosis, anemia, overexcitation, restores bowel function, improves blood count. It is recommended for adults and children. But it is even more useful to simply eat fresh fruits containing this very juice, then you can be sure of its benefits one hundred percent. But how to choose it correctly in the store? Instead of bright red, you can buy white pomegranate, you can find completely light grains. Are they helpful too? Or is it a bad pomegranate?
Origin
The pomegranate has been known to mankind for more than four thousand years, the Italians are sure that it was Eve who offered it to Adam in the Garden of Eden, some languages uXNUMXbuXNUMXbcontain the word apple in the names of this fruit. At all times, people not only enjoyed the luxurious taste of its berries, but also were treated with all parts of the plant, you can see this by reading the treatises of Avicenna. This culture grows in a subtropical climate, which means that it comes to us from Western Asia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Afghanistan.
Fruits can be stored for a long time at a temperature of +2 degrees and a humidity of at least 85%. They ripen from mid-September, and then they are transported to all continents. The closer the path, the greater the certainty that they were picked ripe, so you need to choose those fruits that have ripened closest to us. Before buying expensive and such useful fruits, it is advisable to ask about their origin – there is a difference between the time and terms of delivery from Turkey or Turkmenistan.
Video “Benefit”
From the video you will find out what is the use of pomegranate.
Peel
Only those who understand its varieties can pay attention to the color of a pomegranate. The fact is that the color of the peel of the fetus does not change, which means that it does not depend on the degree of maturity. The color of the fruit is different – yellow, orange, sandy, pink, red, rusty-brown, with a light side or saturated red. All this speaks of varieties and growing conditions, but not of ripeness. 
Therefore, it can be difficult for beginners to figure out when to remove the fruits, they themselves do not fall from the tree, they have to be cut with a pruner.
When choosing a fruit on the counter of a store or on a market stall, you need to pay attention to the integrity of the peel, the uniformity of color, it should not have any spots or black dots suggestive of rot.
In addition, it should fit the grains tightly, like a good glove on a hand – this indicates that they are completely filled with juice, and the skin does not allow them to grow further. Here you need to be careful – an overdried cracking skin indicates too long storage and unsuitable conditions for this.
Flower
Each pomegranate contains the remains of a flower. The so-called “crown” can tell us how ripe the fruit we took in our hand: if all the cloves are dry and break well, and the middle does not contain any remains of greenery, then the fruit was picked ripe. This flower can be of varying degrees of openness, but the main thing is that it does not contain not only greenery, but also no traces of mold. 
You can not only turn the fruit, examine it from all sides, look from the side of the flower, you also need to smell it. Properly stored fruit should be odorless. Its own faint, fresh, slightly spicy aroma can be distinguished only by breaking (or cutting) the skin. So, having felt a barely noticeable smell of mold, put the fruit in place, it is better to look at another seller.
Grain color
The color and flavor of the beans vary from variety to variety. Grains are white, pale pink, red, purple. The taste of the pomegranate is rich, saturated, its pulp contains sugars and acids, the amount of which explains the difference. The astringency and bitterness that remains after the juice on the tongue most often comes from the skin, and the berries themselves are sweet or sweet and sour. By the way, it is because of very active acids that it is recommended to drink juice through a straw, and after eating berries, you must definitely brush your teeth or at least rinse your mouth with clean water – these same acids (which are very useful for the body) destroy tooth enamel.
We are used to the fact that pomegranate seeds should be dark red, these are the ones that look great on the table as a decoration, which is why they are used for salads or desserts. They are usually sour, and the sweetest fruit contains white or pale pink grains. Such grenades have recently been brought to us from Turkey. They contain less acids, but more sugars.
By touch
When choosing a pomegranate, you can stroke its skin with your fingers – too even and wet indicates immaturity.
When ripe, the pomegranate skin becomes rough, the ripe fruit itself will never be exactly round, it is rather ribbed, and in some places even the surface of the grains is felt under the tightly stretched outer shell.
If you take it with your hands and compare the weight of two fruits of approximately the same volume, then you should buy a heavier one – its grains are more filled with juice.
Where to buy
We usually buy products from the same people in the bazaar or use the same stores with a proven track record. Do not change the habit when buying pomegranates. Decent stores report where the product came from, where the fruit grew. 
And in the bazaar, probably, a person who brought his fruit for sale will evoke more confidence than a reseller who is indifferent to the goods. A good seller will usually show a cut pomegranate of the variety he offers to buy, so that the buyer can see the color of the grains. One way or another, you need to carefully examine the fruits, trust your intuition, choose those that suit you the most, taking into account all of the above, they will bring the most benefit.
Video “How to choose a ripe fruit”
From the video you will learn how to choose a good ripe fruit.
