How To Eat A Pomegranate

This large pink fruit has been around since ancient times. Revered for its sweet seeds and versatility as a salad ingredient or juice, it's grown all over the world - from Iran to California. The pomegranate is a great fruit, and de-seeding it isn't as hard as it might seem. Here's how it's done!

1. The fruits are ripe when they have developed a distinctive color and make a metallic sound when tapped.

2. Step 1: Preparation For Extracting The Seeds

   The first or the initial step consists of cutting off the flowery end of the pomegranate. Then you score into sections. By make these sections, this will make your job easier. Now, place the sections in a bowl full of water - this is the important part!

3. Step 2: Soaking

   Now, the pomegranate sections should be allowed to soak for about five to six minutes. By soaking the fruit we will be able to uproot the fruit much more easily because water makes the fruit more soft. This is the best way to extract the pomegranate seeds.

4. Step 3: Separation

   Now the sections of the fruit should be broken open. This should be done in the bowl itself, and does not necessarily require your help. Then, the seed kernels should be allowed to separate from the rind. Finally, you have extracted the seeds of your pomegranate

5. Step 4: Discarding

   Then it is time for the rind to be discarded from the fruit. Throw it away because it is not needed any more. Then the kernels should be drained off.

6. Step 5: Extraction Of The Juice

   Firstly you should press or squeeze the fruit against a countertop. Secondly, the pomegranate sections should be rolled back and forth to destroy the kernels and thus in turn release the juice from the fruit. The third step is where a puncture is made into the fruit, or else the pomegranate must be cut, in order to squeeze the juice out.