{"id":945,"date":"2017-01-10T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2018-08-06T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:09:07","slug":"pomegranate-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/pomegranate-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do with Pomegranate Seeds – Real Food Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pomegranate seeds are juicy and sweet seeds from the pomegranate fruit that contain very high levels of polyphenols (anti-oxidants). Anti-oxidants help cleanse your body from free radicals, which can cause cell damage that leads to many chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and even the process of aging. So it’s important for your health to choose foods that contain a lot of anti-oxidants – and pomegranate seeds are one easy and delicious way of doing so! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
In Real Food Basics, I will generally be focusing on vegetables, but I wanted to add in Pomegranate Seeds to the series because of how easy and fun it is to use them in food! So this week I’ll be sharing some ways of how you can use Pomegranate seeds in food, and hopefully it’ll inspire you to add these little bombs of anti-oxidants into your diet, especially during the winter months when they’re in season.<\/p>\n
It can be a bit complicated to get the seeds out of a pomegranate the first time you try, but practice makes perfect. You can also find frozen pomegranate seeds in most grocery stores, but fresh seeds look and taste the best of course.<\/p>\n
I have 2 different ways I use to open up a pomegranate…<\/p>\n
If the pomegranate skin is tight and firm, I use this way:<\/p>\n
If the pomegranate is a bit softer (more ripe) I’ve noticed that the above method doesn’t work as well, so then I use this method:<\/p>\n
Pomegranates last a couple weeks in room temperature and a few months stored in a fridge.<\/p>\n
What to make with pomegranate seeds:<\/strong><\/p>\n Pomegranate seeds are juicy and sweet seeds from the pomegranate fruit that contain very high levels of anti-oxidants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[277],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worthitliving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n