Easy-Squeeze Your Own Pomegranate Juice for Powerful Health Benefits + 3 Great Pomegranate Recipes

The juicy, red pomegranate is in season now, from September through January, and it’s a great time to take a few home and start drinking some pomegranate juice! The health benefits abound and squeezing the juice is so much less expensive than buying the bottled juice—and a lot easier than you probably think! You don’t need a machine or any equipment, surprisingly! (No, you don’t have to squeeze every tiny little seed into a glass!)  The ruby-like seeds are filled with the most powerful anti-oxidants of all fruits and contain more than a glass of red wine, green tea, blueberries and cranberries. A single glass of pomegranate juice can provide you with 40% of the daily requirement of folic acid, and vitamin A, C and E plus calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, niacin, thiamin, folates and riboflavin.  

Health Benefits of Pomegranate Juice:

1) Heart:  keeps arteries flexible, decreases inflammation in the blood vessel linings, reduces atherosclerosis and plaque, lowers risk of artery blockage, lowers LDL cholesterol and increases HDL cholesterol

2) Blood Sugar: even though pom juice contains fructose, it does not raise blood sugar levels or harm diabetic patients

3) Blood Pressure: reduces high blood pressure, keeps the blood from coagulating and forming blood clots, acts as a natural blood thinner, reduces lesions and inflammation of blood vessels

4) Cancer: eliminates free radicals from the body, inhibits the growth and development of cancer cells in breast, colon, prostate and leukemia, promotes a strong immune system

5) Stomach: helps treat diarrhea and dysentery, aids with digestion

6) Immunity: strong anti-bacterial and anti-microbials to fight viruses and bacteria, reduces cavities and staph, inhibits HIV transmissions

7) Anemia: contains ample iron to help red blood cell deficiencies

In addition to these healthy benefits, pomegranate juice has been shown to relieve or protect against depression and osteoporosis, may relieve symptoms of arthritis and bone inflammation, may curb the onset of Alzheimer’s, known to dissolve kidney stones and cure erectile dysfunction. A diet high in pomegranate juice can help slow down the aging process by reducing wrinkles and fine lines on the face and helps to sustain the regeneration of skin cells. It has even been used to strengthen hair follicles!

What doesn’t pomegranate juice do?

It seems likes there is no bodily function that can’t be improved by a daily intake of pomegranate juice!

Ellen Francis

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