The pomegranate is the child of the East, the Mediterranean and South America. The average age of a pomegranate tree is about 100 years. In appearance, the pomegranate is a round fruit resembling an apple or an orange in size. On top of the pomegranate is covered with dense skin of dark red color. Inside, it is simply strewn with ruby-colored grains that are securely held by films.
Choose and store grenades
The following tips will help you find the right pomegranate:
- The garnet should be quite large and quite heavy for its size.
- In ripe pomegranate, the peel is shiny, with a hint of pale pink to a rich red color and evenly colored.
- In appearance, the pomegranate is dry and firm, without damage, should not be crumpled and with green tails. It should not have a smell.
- Garnet grains should be smooth and without damage.
To the issue of storage:
Garnet is stored in a dry, cool and ventilated room for 1-2 months. If you need to keep the grenade for a longer period (about a year), then you can clean the grenade, pull the grain and freeze in the refrigerator, or simply freeze the fruit itself. When storing fresh pomegranate juice, the period should not exceed more than 3 days, sterilized - more than a year.
How to properly clean the grenade
Many avoid eating garnet because of the blackening of the hands after it is broken. And yet, how to properly clean the grenade?
- We take the fruit, cut off the top and cut the skin. We put it for a while in a deep bowl with cold water. After that, we take out the fruit, substitute it under water and break it into small pieces - the seeds will fall out on their own.
- From the fruit of a pomegranate with a knife, the place of flowering is cut out. Then, on the barely noticeable places of presentation of the ribs of the fetus, cut the peel and just break the grenade into slices.
- This method allows you to properly clean the fruit and practically does not allow contact with hands with pomegranate seeds. Cut the pomegranate along in half. Then take the bowl and lay on it a sieve with large holes, which will allow the grenade not to fall, but freely let the grains through the holes. On this grate, we place a pomegranate downwards, and then gently beat the dessert spoon over the skin. In the end, all the grains themselves will fall easily. True, easy?
One of the unpleasant disadvantages of a pomegranate is, as mentioned above, the blackening of the fingers after it has been cleaned. But with this help to cope lemon. Just cut the lobule and wipe your hands, and then rinse with water.
Pomegranate is a very useful fruit, besides it turns out that it is not difficult to clean a grenade. Therefore, you can enjoy ruby grains daily and get a lot of useful vitamins.