This weekend I picked the first pomegranate of the season from my garden.
One tree has these strange looking small ones and the other tree has giants. Hmmmmm.... The small treasures in our lives.
Painting inspired by this healthy fruit coming up.
Facts about La Granada:
The name "pomegranate" derives from Latin pōmum "apple" and grānātus "seeded" (from grānum "grain")
Its so good for you
Pomegranate juice provides about 16% of an adult's daily vitamin C requirement per 100 ml serving, and is a good source of vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), potassium and polyphenols, such as tannins and flavonoids.
Pomegranates are listed as high-fiber in some charts of nutritional
value. That fiber, however, is entirely contained in the edible seeds
which also supply unsaturated oils. People who choose to discard the
seeds forfeit nutritional benefits conveyed by the seed fiber, oils and micronutrients.
The Pomegranate in Spain and New Spain
The pomegranate was first cultivated in the Middle East. It then spread east to China and west to Africa and the Mediterranean. Pomegranates proliferated in southern Spain and eventually the city of Granada was named for them. When Queen Isabela and King Ferdinand conquered the last stronghold of the Muslims in Granada in 1492, they believed it such a significant milestone that a pomegranate was added to the monarchs’ coat of arms. The pomegranate was also featured on the coat of arms of their daughter, Catherine of Aragón (the first of the six wives to England’s King Henry VIII).
Spanish colonists introduced
the pomegranate to the Americas shortly after the conquest. In the late
1530s the Spanish chronicler Motolinía wrote that in Puebla, Mexico,
“fruit trees of every kind prosper extremely well, especially
pomegranates…” Spanish missionaries brought pomegranate seeds with them
to Arizona, California, and Texas, where the trees still flourish.
Pomegranate motifs were embroidered on textiles and decorated silver,
ceramics, furniture, jewelry, horsegear and wall paintings.
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