Pomegranates revisited
“The latest hot super fruit that has been found to be beneficial to life and health as we know it are “pomegranates, those awkward little chaps with a brown leathery skin yet inside, packed with little red jewels.
It was these that gave rise to the pomegranates common name, from the French grenade because the seeds looked like the filling of a hand grenade known in Persia since ancient times. Some scholars think that it may have been the pomegranate that Eve ate instead of the apple and it as been revered in many different cultures since then, both as a symbol and as a medicine.” Article.