POM is right - they ARE wonderful.
It got Persephone into trouble, but the pomegranate is one of nature’s most powerful, delicious and – let it be said – awesome fruits. In addition to high levels of Vitamin C, the “Seeded Apple” (pomme granate, as translated from Middle French) also has three heart-disease-fighting polyphenols, loads of potassium, and a healthy amount of fiber.
On a personal note, I like the pomegranate as a diet food. It’s not only low in calories, but eaten the traditional way (i.e., putting on a bib and stabbing at it with a spoon to extract the exquisite ruby kernels of deliciousness) takes enough time and effort that you’re left with neither the will nor the energy to hunt down fattier snacks.
If you’re just looking to chow down, you can also dump them in a bowl, but come on, where’s the fun in that?
Delicious, low in calories, liable to indelibly stain any surface even momentarily touched by its super-powered juice…what’s not to like? For all these reasons and more, I hereby declare the pomegranate to be…AWESOME.
