Why Should You Consume Pomegranate Daily?

Pomegranate or 'anaar' is a very healthy fruit and it is extremely beneficial for the body. We have listed a few good reasons that should encourage you to have some of the fruit daily in your lunch box. 

  • Kishori Sud
  • Her Zindagi Editorial
  • Updated - 2018-09-12, 18:31 IST
health benefits of pomegranate

Pomegranate which is an amazing source of vitamins, has anti-oxidants, anti-viral and anti-tumor properties in abundance. Make it a part of diet, be it directly like a snack or like a juice, or infused in some green tea perhaps. Here is a list of why you shuld consume this fruit on daily basis:

Oxygen Mask

This food helps to pump the level of oxgen in our blood. Thanks to the anti-oxidants in 'annar', our cholestrol is reduced and it also prevents blood cotd in our bodies.

Ditch Arthiritis

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Pomegranate can reduce the damage of your cartilage by battling the enzyme that does so. This fruit also has the ablity to reduce inflammation.

Beneficial Nutrients

250 gms of pomegranate contains 24 gms of sugar and 144 colories. Need we say more?

Improve Your Memory

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As per a study conducted on people who suffer memory loss or have problems retaining memories, consumption of pomegranate made a major difference. They all were made to have 237 ml of pomegranate juice every single day. An immense improvement was seen in their verbal and visual memory.

Good Digestive System

The fibre present in pomegranate is excellent for us. It makes digestion easier and we are plain lucky that the fruit has 45 percent of our daily fibre requirement in it.

Happy Heart

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Pomegranate juice has the ability to fight prostate cancer. This fruit thins the blood and improves its conditions, which prevents cardiovascular diseases.

Lower Stress Levels

Given the kind of life we all are leading lately, stress is like a given emotion. Apart from reducing body's internal stress, pomegranate also lowers psychological stress that we experience due to our work or whatever other reasons we might have.

Sport Performance Enhancer

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Pomegranate juice is an amazing sport performance enhancer. Also, if you workout a lot, the juice of this fruit lowers the soreness and improves our strength. It also decreases the oxidative damage which is caused by exercise.

Diabetes

'Anaar' was traditionally used as a remedy for diabetes in the Middle East and in India. It is said that the fruit decreases insulin resistance and lowers blood sugar.

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