Pomegranate ... Anti-oxidant properties and other virtues!
Easily recognizable by its purple color, the pomegranate is this deliciously thirst-quenching fruit, characterized by its many seeds, its arils.
The benefits of pomegranate and its juice are increasingly being touted.
Indeed, extracted from the bark of the fruit, pomegranate juice is a concentrate of anthocyanins – these natural pigments at the origin of the redness of the grape and the autumnal colors of the leaves of the trees – but also in tannins and in ellagic acid, the latter long renowned for slowing down aging during fermentation in barrels!These antioxidants act as a real guarantee for the human body, in particular to prevent hormone-dependent cancers such as breast or prostate cancer, but also lung and skin cancer.
More generally, this fruit is reputed to slow down the aging of cells, and to be endowed with anti-inflammatory properties…. knowing that a cancer is primarily an inflammation.
Moreover, as well as the tannin of the glass of wine, that of pomegranate juice is recognized against atherosclerosis, this deposit which obstructs the arteries until the heart attack.
In addition, pomegranate is an anti-infective, which boosts the immune system. And it is one of the richest fruits in vitamin C.
Remember in any case, that if there is no "anti-cancer" miracle recipe, the pomegranate is one of the most protective foods recognized by medicine.
While other foods such as garlic, recommended against cancers of the digestive tract, require the absorption of a precisely indigestible quantity to have an effect, drinking a quarter of a liter of pomegranate juice - a large glass – every day, is plausible.
This is what also distinguishes this fruit from other antioxidant foods: the quantity to be absorbed for it to be effective. Enough to encourage you to drink it without moderation.
While other foods such as garlic, recommended against cancers of the digestive tract, require the absorption of a precisely indigestible quantity to have an effect, drinking a quarter of a liter of pomegranate juice - a large glass – every day, is plausible.
This is what also distinguishes this fruit from other antioxidant foods: the quantity to be absorbed for it to be effective. Enough to encourage you to drink it without moderation.