Prostate cancer and Pomegranate

The 100% pomegranate juice tastes a bit bitter. I guess that is why they make it 56% and add apple etc.

But I’ll down the rest tomorrow. I have a date tomorrow and if all the goodies have an effect, tomorrow would be the time to be prepared. Just in case.

Why not just eat the fruit itself? It definitely has much more nutritional value, plus you don’t produce any real garbage.

100% juices… Aren’t most of them made of juice concentrate and then they add water? The process of extraction the juice surely destroys many healthy attributes…..

Every fruit is better fresh and raw.

I have never tried to tackle the fruit myself but it is not as easy as taking a bite out of an apple. I think accessing the edible part of a pomegranate is a bit of a pain in the ass compared to opening a juice bottle and pouring. Besides, all of the health benefits I have read about concern drinking the juice, not eating the fruit. I don’t even know how many pomegranates it would take to equal 8 ounces of juice, which the the amount I drink every day.

All studies are based on juice. Which doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be even better to eat fruit, but it isn’t in season (or cheap) year round.

1 liter contains 8 fruits, according to the carton - so one a day at least would be the ticket, at minimum double the price.

I tried extracting the juice from a large Pom today the cost of the Pom was £1 ($1.5) and I obtained 2 ozs of juice, plus a lot of gunge which probaly absorbed some of the juice.

So it would seem the cost of a juiced Pom is about £10, or $15 a pint of 20 fl ozs. I saw a bottle of 100% Pom juice in a store for £4 and I suppose it contained about 12 ozs. So it would seem that the juice (which is reconstituted with water) is the better value.

Naturally this depends where you live in the world as the price of Poms will be cheaper nearer to it’s home base.

I would guess that some of the phenols and good stuff is trapped in the flesh of the seeds as well as the seeds themselves, so most likely there you get more out of the fruit by eating it as is compared to juicing it.

I just had about a quarter of a fruit with my breakfeast cereal and youghurt - it gave a nice fresh taste, and you don’t notice the seeds either :D

I did my test with a large Pom using a simple hand juicer, It was fairly easy to separate the gunge, and the seeds were like bullets. Far too hard to chew comfortably, I’m not quite sure what would be the result if you ate, or swallowed them whole. (But don’t eat foods that give you wind!) :D

I’ll be juicing a smaller Pom where the seeds are more tender tomorrow. So I’ll see how that goes

Ironically I just purchased some POM tonight. This stuff is VERY expensive but it’s worth it IMO. I love Pomegranates and Pomegranate Juice. It tastes delicious. Not to mention all of the added health benefits. POM Wonderful – 100% Pomegranate Juice :D

Thanks for that HS. It give a good way of opening the fruit up!

You’re welcome PF. :)

I have now bought the 56% version with grapejuice - tastes better, my daughter likes it too.

I did buy the 100% version, and tried gulping down the entire quart in the evening/morning one day. Took a few hours, then I had violent diarrhea, had to take Immodium to quench it.

Then I bought another quart of 100% and this time I took half a quart one morning. Once again, violent diarrhea + Immodium.

When I’ve taken 1-3 dl of 100% pomegranate juice I’ve been OK.

I read in my Men’s Health magazine that you only need about 8oz a day of 100% pomegranate juice to reap the health benefits. Drinking any more than that would probably be like drinking away your money. Just some food for thought.

Yes, in the test I read about they drank something like a cup or so.

I was curious about the effect that it would have on erection etc. And in one case I got to test it, worked fine. Not sure that it worked terribly much better than without, or to what extent the benefit was placebo. But I’ve never used Viagra or Cialis, so I can’t compare.

Update - I told a colleague about this a while back and he’s been drinking a glass of pomegranate juice (some low-percentage type mixed with other juices) every morning for the last 4-5 months. He’s 66 years old. He just recently took his PSA-test, and his values came out lower this time.

Anecdotal - like PE - but it’s safe to drink pomegranate juice so why not?

Heres a tip for getting the seats separated from the meat without splattering yourself with juice, do it under water, in a bowl. Plus it doesn’t stain your hands as badly either.