Pomegranates, like many vegetables and fruits, are not only delicious but also extremely healthy. Pomegranate juice and seeds contain three types of antioxidants that may help fight cancer and heart disease. You can eat the grains of the grant just like that, right with the seeds, or you can sprinkle them on salad, meat, cake. You can squeeze juice from them, prepare a sauce or marinade. Whatever you're going to do with the pomegranate, you first need to pick a ripe fruit.
It is necessary
Several grenades to choose from
Instructions
Step 1
Pick a few pomegranates based on their color. A good fruit should be bright red with a few lighter spots.
Step 2
Take pomegranates and rate them by weight. If the fruit is heavier than you expected from its appearance, and also weighs more than a pomegranate of the same size, then it is most likely ripe and juicy. If the pomegranate is lighter than you expect and than other pomegranates, then it may be immature or dry.
Step 3
Take the fruit in your hands and gently press down on it. A good pomegranate should be firm, but give a little pressure. If it is completely hard, then it is unripe, if, on the contrary, it is very soft, then it is overripe or spoiled.
Step 4
Examine the skin of the pomegranate, it should be tough, firm and smooth. Press on it with your finger, the skin of the fetus should not wrinkle. There should be no cracks or whitish spots on it. Look into the "crown" of the pomegranate, it should also be free of mold and debris.
Step 5
Tap the grenade with your finger. Ripe pomegranate makes a "metallic" sound like you are tapping on a container, unripe and overripe fruits produce muffled sounds.
