Healthy Life with Fruit Picking Benefits POME
Lately you may have seen ads on tv about antioxidant-rich beverage that comes from the fruit of POME. POME? What is this fruit? Apparently the fruit has long been known to the public POME Indonesia with other designations of pomegranates. POME aka pomegranate fruit (pomegranate), which in the Latin language called punica granatum, is being discussed by Santer suspected to contain many antioxidants.
Origin Plants pomegranate (Punica granatum) are Asian shrub, species from Socarta Island. Though thought to have originated from Iran, the pomegranate cultivation much more developed in the Middle East region, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and India, and Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. These plants experienced rapid growth when cultivated in France. Because the seeds very many, up to 800 seeds / fruit, the French call it a POME garnete, or an apple seed. From the story is the pomegranate is now a popular name as a wild-pomegranat.
The names of Pomegranates have a different name in some regions in Indonesia, among others, called by the Malays in Sumatra pomegranate, glima (Aceh), glineu Mecca (Gayo), dhalima (Madura), gangsalan (Java), dalima (Sunda), teliman (Sasak), Kase and rumu catfish (Timor).
Growing Conditions Pomegranates have long cultivated plants in Indonesia. There are three kinds of pomegranates, the white pomegranate, pomegranate red, purple and pomegranate. These plants love the crumbly soil that is not submerged in water, with ground water is not deep. Regional growth is good for tropical regions kemaraunya season long and hot with a height of 1000 m above sea level. But many are also found in lowlands such as in Jakarta.
In addition to seeds, pomegranate propagated by cuttings, bud, root and transplant. Sometimes people use Sniper, or a connection to propagate the tree. But to be a plant variety can only be reproduced with the pruning of plants along the stem 25-30 cm, which can then be planted in soil terbuka.Delima generally grow in a variety of land and types of weather, but the fruit of good quality, can only be harvested when the time warm and dry air.
Plant traits Pomegranate crop in the form of shrubs or small trees with a height of 25 m. Woody stems, twigs angled, branching many, weak, thorn in the armpit leaves, brown when young, green and dirty after the elderly. The leaves are stemmed oval elongate, shiny and small. 1-5 flower bud, appears at the end of branches and leaves in the armpits of the top, red or yellowish-white, but there are also purple-black.
The fruits are round with a diameter of 512 cm, red in color shiny, yellow, white, chestnut or purple-black, seeds many, small, round a long, hard, arranged irregularly, the color red, pink, or white, sweet and sour taste fresh. These plants produce fruit all year round.
Benefits and Khasiat POME or pomegranate is often planted as an ornamental plant, medicinal plants, or because the fruit can be eaten. Pomegranate fruit can be eaten fresh, as a mixed fruit salad, fruit salad, juice or fruit juice. To make pomegranate juice should be drunk with the seed because seed lots contained in the polyphenol compounds.
In Asia, the fruit juice is thickened into a syrup which is used as a sauce. In Egypt was used as a kind of fruit wine, syrup, and fruit juice. In one cup pomegranate juice antioxidant content of more than one red wine glass, green tea or orange juice. In America, pomegranate juice product, known as the pom wonderful to recent trends in health drinks.
Pomegranate juice is known as a healthy fruit juice, high usefulness. High content of pomegranate juice potassium ions (potassium), vitamins A, C and E and folic acid. From the seeds can be eaten, the content of potassium per 100 grams (259th mg / g), energy 63 cal, 30 mg vitamin C. This component is considered very important for heart health (Time, December 2003).
Pomegranate juice is also high content of flavonoidnya, a powerful antioxidant important role to prevent the development of free radicals in the body while improving the body's cells are damaged, and is able to provide protection against heart disease, skin cancer, and prostate cancer. Antioxidants contained in it to help prevent blockage in the arteries by cholesterol.
Even the content of antioxidants in pomegranate amount three times more than wine or green tea. Researchers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that people who drank juice three or more times a week, can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's up to 76% compared with people who do not drink juice at all.
According to a report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2003), a man who drank 200 cc per day for one week in a row will increase the antioxidant activity of about 9 percent. But note also that the antioxidant can function optimally if we also maintain the pattern of a good life.
In addition to delicious taste, it turns out this fruit can be useful for cleaning the mouth, preventing plaque on teeth, and overcoming bad breath because it contains antibacterial. The trick is to gargle with pomegranate juice. The fruit is also helpful in maintaining digestion. Tannin contained in fruit POME / pomegranate efficacious as an astringent, which is shrinking the intestinal mucous, so spending a liquid diarrhea reduced.
Consuming pomegranate can also reduce the pain of sore throat and a hoarse voice due to purify a dry throat. In addition, tannin substances contained in pomegranates can expel the worms in the stomach. This is considered an effective way to remove the worms in the stomach through the bowel which are usually done by the inhabitants of Egypt and Vietnam.
Apparently so many properties that we can learn from consuming this fruit. Come and start developing a pomegranate fruit healthy life with POME / pomegranate!
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