The New Super Fruit by, Barbara Christensen

Thank you to Barbara Christensen of  Eat Fresh In The City  for contributing this article. Reprinted by permission.

                                                     The New Super Fruit

 The pomegranate is native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and was cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region since ancient times. It is widely cultivated throughout India and the drier parts of southeast Asia, Malaya, the East Indies and tropical Africa. The tree was introduced into California by Spanish settlers in 1769. In this country it is grown for its fruits mainly in the drier parts of California and Arizona.

POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice is a little bit sweet, a little bit tart and a whole lotta healthy. And as it turns it – this little bottle of juice could be just the change your bulging belly has been searching for. Grown for ornamentation and for the delicious edible fruit it produces, the Wonderful or Red Wonderful is the most common variety, plus smaller plantings of Early Foothill. The fruit is about the size of an apple, and has a leathery, deep red to purplish red rind. And a new study from scientists at the University of Edinburgh has linked pomegranate juice to fat belly reduction. You heard it here first. You could drink some POM and find yourself with reduced belly fat. Sweeet!

The test subject were asked to consume a bottle of 500ml of pomegranate juice everyday for a span of 4 weeks. What they found after the trial period was that the people who have consumed the pomegranate juice were found with lesser number of NEFA (Non Esterified Fatty Acid) levels in the blood. This promotes the kind of belly fat that we all know and hate. NEFA has the capability of storing higher amounts of fat around the stomach region, and that is what Dr. Oz says it the worst sign of your health.

So I recommend that we all reach for a little POM over the next four weeks and see what you can find. It may be a smaller belly, or maybe just a boosted immune system. Either way, I say it’s a yummy trial to take part in.