Health Benefits Of Pomegranate Fruits

Pomegranate fruits are the gift of nature originated from Arab countries. It's being cultivated in many parts of the world including US, European, African and Asian countries and available in market throughout the year. This is different from other fruits as it contains many hundreds of brilliant red colored edible seeds that have sweet and sour taste.

The seeds of the fruit are covered with a water like substance called arils. Arils contain water, glucose, and antioxidants such as polyphenols, flavonoids. The seeds provides many important vitamins and minerals like Vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin E, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine, Copper, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Iron.

Health Benefits of Pomegranate Fruits 

Being enriched with vitamins and minerals it will be so good for the overall health of all age group of people. The people who may be suffering from anaemia can get nice results by drinking its juice at least thrice a week. Its also a good choice for diabetics since these are less sweet. 

The presence of active antioxidants like Punicalagin makes it responsible for preventing heart disease, heart attack, hypertension, cholesterol problem, breast, prostrate and colon cancer. It will be also helpful to avoid, Atherosclerosis, narrowing of arteries due to excessive smoking and high cholesterol level. 

Collagen found in it is a kind of protein required for good skin health and its structure. Ellagic acid, a polyphenol antioxidant found in pomegranate  will prevent damage and degradation of collagen in skin cells and hence avoid the formation of wrinkles.

Since many decades the flowers of pomegranate fruits has been used in Ayurvedic and Unani as a medicine for the treatment of diabetes. With its analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties, the pomegranate extract can be used as a good remedy for headache and sore throats. Drinking the mixture of pomegranate juice, ginger extract and honey will be effective to cure cough problem. 

The dried peel of pomegranate fruits can be a good remedy for bad breath. The problem can be overcome by gargling the boiled water with dried peel of the fruit at morning and evening times. Pimples can also be cured by applying the mixture of lemon juice and powdered dry peel of pomegranates.

Ladies can drink pomegranate juice to come out of over bleeding during menses period. This will also help them to get increased memory power and hemoglobin level in blood. Drinking the mixture of pomegranate juice, ginger extract and honey will be effective to cure cough problem.