AZZenny
Registered User
Anyone else gotten into POM Wonderful pomegranate juice?
The medical research on pomegranate juice, seed oil, and peel extract is very, very impressive, and looks quite sound and well-designed -- this isn't marketing type 'research,' it's peer-reviewed and pretty convincing: reduced growth and development of tumors of skin, breast, prostate, lung, and colon; reduces accumulation of amyloid plaque in animal model of Alzheimer's; facilitates wound healing and surface skin regeneration; anti-viral/anti-fungal; low-glycemic so safe for diabetics and in several studies reduces bad cholesterol fractions and reduces arterial atherosclerosis. So far the only variety of pomegranate named in the studies is the Wonderful cultivar grown in California and Israel, but they are starting to look at other varieties (like in Spain where they also grow a lot of pomegranates.)
I have a wineglass of POM 100% (they also make it mixed with blueberry, cherry, mango, and tangerine, but I prefer the pure pomegranate) instead of a glass of red wine in the evening, with a splash of mineral water -- it's not real sweet, so it works very well -- and maybe have actual wine later on, instead of having two glasses of wine. POM isn't cheap, but not bad compared to decent wine.
POMx iced teas are also great, but they're a little sweet, so I cut them ~50% with home-made plain green or regular iced tea. Can't go a day without one. I have amassed a huge collection of the glass bottles, which make good drinking glasses, so have to start recycling them I guess.
The problem is they are out of the 100% juice everywhere in town! Apparently it's between the last of 2005 stocks and they're just about to harvest and press for 2006, so if anybody sees the pure pomegranate juice anywhere in town, could you let me know?
The medical research on pomegranate juice, seed oil, and peel extract is very, very impressive, and looks quite sound and well-designed -- this isn't marketing type 'research,' it's peer-reviewed and pretty convincing: reduced growth and development of tumors of skin, breast, prostate, lung, and colon; reduces accumulation of amyloid plaque in animal model of Alzheimer's; facilitates wound healing and surface skin regeneration; anti-viral/anti-fungal; low-glycemic so safe for diabetics and in several studies reduces bad cholesterol fractions and reduces arterial atherosclerosis. So far the only variety of pomegranate named in the studies is the Wonderful cultivar grown in California and Israel, but they are starting to look at other varieties (like in Spain where they also grow a lot of pomegranates.)
I have a wineglass of POM 100% (they also make it mixed with blueberry, cherry, mango, and tangerine, but I prefer the pure pomegranate) instead of a glass of red wine in the evening, with a splash of mineral water -- it's not real sweet, so it works very well -- and maybe have actual wine later on, instead of having two glasses of wine. POM isn't cheap, but not bad compared to decent wine.
POMx iced teas are also great, but they're a little sweet, so I cut them ~50% with home-made plain green or regular iced tea. Can't go a day without one. I have amassed a huge collection of the glass bottles, which make good drinking glasses, so have to start recycling them I guess.
The problem is they are out of the 100% juice everywhere in town! Apparently it's between the last of 2005 stocks and they're just about to harvest and press for 2006, so if anybody sees the pure pomegranate juice anywhere in town, could you let me know?
