You must log in or # to comment.
the triforce of pomegranate
Each? Thats like 9 trials and it still has seeds in it at the end? Was this fruit made by EA or something?
Makes me wonder why they evolved that way? Usually, the point of a fruit is to get the seeds into the gut, so the animal spreads them afield. Shouldn’t the fruit be easily accessible, while the seed is impervious to the stomach acid?
I’m just trying to help here!
While there is very little to read about prehistoric pomegranates, or at the very least google has let me down once again; it seems herbivores larger than humans were likely the “intended” consumers of pomegranates. As such the larger animals would have an easier time eating the fruit. Potentially eating the whole fruit instead of just targeting the seeds like we do. (This seems to mostly be speculation, and probably mostly speculation on my part)
DuckDuckGo ftw 🦆
Don’t listen to me, I have no idea what I’m saying. But I’m just imagining it like a cat/dog treat-ball, with the animal tearing at it trying to get to the juicy part with the fruit flying all over the place spreading its seeds wide and far.
All the food plants we eat have been selectively bred by humans for thousands of years.
From the top of my head (don’t cite me): I don’t know what the wild fruit looks like. Maybe humans bred it to contain more seeds and thereby made it bigger. Another idea would be that difficult to open leads animals to carry it further and therefore spread the seeds further. Yet another idea: maybe to skin was supposed to fall apart but humans bred it to be stronger or harvest it before its really ripe? All just ideas.
I saw a dude juicing his own pomegrantes to see the cost of fresh fruit vs buying a 32oz jug of juice and it was basically a savings of $1 or so; but what was most interesting to me was just how much juice a single fruit produced. I’ve eaten them fresh and it feels like basically nothing trying to eat the meat around all the seeds, but you could get like half a cup from a single pomegranate.
Eat the meat around the seeds?? Are you eating the white parts or eating it like it was a hundred tiny peaches?
a hundred tiny peaches?
Just the red parts surrounding the seeds is edible afaik. And yeah, it’s kinda like eating a bunch of tiny peaches, but the fleshy part has more of a grape or raisin texture.
Huh, my entire family always just ate the red part whole. The seed crunch is part of the experience. I couldn’t imagine going through the trouble of separating the meat off the seeds.
Edit: yep pomegranate seeds are fully edible and full of nutrients at that.
That’s part of the fun.
Or mangos: here I am-AHA MOTHERFUCKER I’M STUCK IN YOUR TEETH NOW
