Fun with Fruit!

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Well, after talking about them significantly in medicinal plants class and having to know what the advantages of them are for an exam, I decided it was high time that I found out what pomegranate is like. My observations:

--The white part and the rind part are not the part you eat. You want the seeds with their juicy covering. That's the part you want.
--It's pretty damn hard to hack into a pomegranate and extract the seeds. They're in a ton of little compartments, and they're fairly well-anchored to their placenta. So after hacking into the fruit, you have to try and break it apart so you can get into all the little nooks and crannies. When you go about pulling them off, they like to break and spray juice EVERYWHERE, and that doesn't include when you hack open the pomegranate and cut through some of the seeds, which promptly leak juice like they had just been gouged with a knife(which they had been).
--The seeds are pretty.
--They taste pretty good too. Kind of like a cross between a grape and a cranberry.
--My only qualm is that sometimes the seed itself is a little off-putting. I'd rather just eat the little juice compartments. In a way, I think the experience is like eating an overly huge section of a raspberry.
--I don't really like to eat too many of them straight in one sitting, for the majority of the reasons cited above.
--They are, however, pretty damn good in salads.

So I suspect I'll be eating them again sometime soon. I'll just be sure to wear something that I won't care if it gets peppered with a ton of little juice stain spots.

Comments

[dialogue.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was just struggling with a pomegranate the other day. The little pamphlet that came with it suggested breaking it open in a bowl of water; the fruity bits would sink to the bottom, but the white stuff would float to the top so you could throw it out. The seeds were a little off-putting, though I liked the juice-flavor. I might try just the pomegranate juice sometime, but it's awfully expensive.

[peppermintberry.livejournal.com]

I've heard of the opening-it-in-a-bowl-of-water idea, although I was concerned it would make an even bigger mess. Although...it would potentially have the benefit of keeping the juice from flying everywhere and getting all over everything. Maybe I'll try that next time.

It'd be really cool if someone came up with a seedless pomegranate--where you get the juicy stuff but not the seed itself. That'd be awesome.