Article: Juice-packed pods of pomegranate are powerhouses of flavor and nutrients.

Byline: Nancye Tuttle

Dec. 27--Who says Eve tempted Adam with an apple in the Garden of Eden?

The Bible, of course. But some scholars contend instead that she offered him a pomegranate, leading the way to God's banishing them from the garden. Long associated with health and rebirth, the pomegranate is one of earth's earliest cultivated fruits. Native to the Middle East and the Himalayas in northern India, pomegranates have been grown throughout the Mediterranean region since ancient times. Spanish settlers brought pomegranate trees to California in 1769. Today, they grow in dry parts there and in Arizona. Revered in myth, legend, art and ...

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