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Article: Easy-to-make, healthful pomegranate recipes
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- Better Nutrition
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Packed with antioxidants, pomegranates add a healthful flair to seasonal entertaining.
While November may be cool, May in the Mediterranean can be relentlessly hot. But the gods have stayed the blinding sunlight with a soothing antidote: the luscious orange blossoms of the pomegranate. This is the season when, in ancient times, the wheat was harvested, thus the flowering of the pomegranates marked both an end to spring and the beginning of summer.
Perhaps for this reason the pomegranate was associated with the ancient Greek cycles of winter and summer. On Cyprus, where, according to legend, the goddess Aphrodite brought the fruit from Phoenicia, the pomegranate was a symbol of love. ...