hello everyone and welcome to another v5 article today i’m going to be telling you all of the health benefits of the pomegranate fruit just a little bit of background information on the pomegranate the pomegranate comes from the latin word palm p-o-m-e which means apple and granted also from the latin word that means seed so when you put it together it was like apple seed and it was called that because of it looks like an apple because of the red color but it’s full of seeds so you put that together and it that’s
how we get the name pomegranate one other interesting fact about the pomegranate is that i’m pretty sure you’ve heard of the military term a grenade you know that weapon that bomb that they throw and then it just splatters out well grenade gets its name from pomegranate because take for instance this pomegranate it’s full of all these seeds and they just when you open it up they splatter all over the place it’s kind of like an exploding fruit one other interesting fact is that ancient cultures they used the pomegranate for dye to get
that red color from the blossoms they would crush up the blossoms and they would use that for the red color to uh dye various garments also the skin of the pomegranate was used to dye leather in a lot of ancient cultures as well also pomegranates are mentioned in the bible quite frequently if you read the story of how the children of israel when they were going into the promised land and they spied out the land they found out that the promised land was full of pomegranates so now let’s get into a few of the health benefits of eating
pomegranates pomegranates can help protect you against heart disease they do that by lowering your cholesterol levels the pomegranate acts as a blood thinner and it helps to get rid of any blood clots that may be forming in your arteries because the pomegranate thins the blood if you may have a clot in your arteries it’s going to kind of break that down and free it up a little bit to allow that blood to flow better throughout your arteries also as you get older in aged the walls of the arteries become hard and sometimes that can create
blockage one good benefit of the pomegranate is that it has antioxidants that help to remove the hardness from the walls of the arteries therefore increasing the blood flow and allowing better circulation throughout the body being that the pomegranate helps with blood flow that increases the oxygen that flows throughout your body and we know that you need that oxygen flowing throughout your body to make you alert to make you uh lively if you’re not getting any oxygen to the brain you know that can lead to death
that can make you faint so the pomegranate helps to allow that oxygen to better flow through the body because it increases the blood flow within the artery the pomegranate also helps to lower high blood pressure one other benefit of eating the pomegranate is all of its anti-inflammatory properties that’s due to its high content of vitamin c all of the anti-inflammatory properties help to reduce various cancers and also type 2 diabetes that may form within the body also because the pomegranate reduces inflammation it’s good at helping out
with arthritis and other various forms of inflammation that the body may have and we know that inflammation leads to a whole lot of various diseases so we want to keep that inflammation in the body down and a pomegranate is a good choice to assist with that studies show that drinking pomegranate juice also helps to reduce the spread of cancerous cells within the prostate so it helps to fight prostate cancer also the pomegranate also has a high fiber content and we know that fruits and vegetables that have a high fiber content
are good to help keep you regular and helps you go to the bathroom the way you’re supposed to go also one cup of pomegranate seeds contains three grams of protein that’s right three grams of protein just from one cup of pomegranate seeds the pomegranate also helps to boost your immune system because of its high content and vitamin c and we know that a high content in vitamin c helps you to fight off the cold and other diseases or infections that may occur into the body the pomegranate is loaded with vitamin a e
and c one other benefit of the pomegranate and this is for all the guys out there it helps with erectile dysfunction if you’re dealing with that so we can see that the pomegranate has many health benefits from boosting up your immune system to improving blood circulation to helping out with blood clots erectile dysfunction and also inflammation there are just many numerous benefits of the pomegranate so now what i’m going to do i’m gonna show you an easy way to crack open your pomegranate how to peel it and how to get all the seeds
from up out of here now i’m gonna show you how to cut the pomegranate open and how to make the best of it and get all the seeds up out of here you’re going to take your pomegranate and this side right here is the side where the plant would bloom so this is where the flower actually came from the pomegranate this other side was the stem where the pomegranate was connected to the tree so get your knife and around the top of the bloom part this right here we’re going to cut around around the crown of it
just like that kind of go around all the way around a circle just like that not so deep in there but just around enough to to get in there so you can get your fingers up under there now once we’ve done that you’re going to take the top and you’re just going to pluck it off just like that and you can see the seeds in there uh i’m gonna go around here just a little just a little more so you can kind of see some of the ridges in here and we see it’s exploding just how i mentioned how the pomegranate
and the grenade gets its name from the pomegranate because of the explodingness of it but when you do that you’ll notice that all pomegranates have these ridges around here there’s about five ridges so the next step is around each ridge you’ll actually see like the ridge separates the sections but around each ridge you’re gonna slightly go down it’s the next ridge slightly go down five different sections slightly go down and here’s the next one we’re gonna go down so now we went down each section of the
pomegranate and then once you have it like that you’re just gonna crack it open just like that i have one i done earlier i cracked open and here’s the next one oh just falling apart but this piece this membrane just pull that out just like that and now we have it like this but i want to get all these seeds out so i’m going to show you an easy way to get the seeds out grab a bowl i’m just going to get a bowl that way my seeds are not flying all over the place but i’m going to get a bowl and i’m
going to get a spoon preferably a wooden spoon kind of works better just put it over like this and you’re going to hit it hit the pomegranate and the seeds are going to come falling out and this is where the bowl comes in handy because otherwise you’ll have a big mess going on so look at that seeds are out [Applause] seeds are basically out i have this other one i’m going to do the same thing this is a bigger pomegranate has a lot more seeds but i’m just going to smack this one over my bowl uh it would be good to wear an apron
that way the splatter doesn’t get all over you but these seeds are flying everywhere now i understand why the french um that word grenade comes from pomegranate because it’s a it’s it truly is an exploding fruit look take a look at that seeds are out so now if you look at the bowl you’ll see all my seeds in here but you see these membrane pieces the white pieces uh we really don’t want to eat those we just want the seed so i’m going to show you an easy way to separate these white pieces from the
seeds just get you some you can just take this bowl run some water in it i got my cup of water just going to pour now when you look in see how the membrane pieces float to the top and you can just skim off all of that you can put that away somewhere in the trash just skim all that away all right so once you’ve removed the majority of those what we’re gonna do now we’re just gonna pour out the water okay as you can see we poured out the water and now you’re left with all these delicious pomegranate seeds
get you a spoon use your hand however you want to do it uh put these in the juicer get the juice is up to you but i i love to put these in a bowl and i get a spoon and i just chump away it’s so good i hope you enjoyed this article and i also hope you enjoy learning about the many benefits of the pomegranate fruit remember to like comment subscribe to my channel and let me know what you want to see until next time remember your body is a temple stay blessed you