Pomgranate Fruit Research Paper

1 Background and problem statement
Pomegranate fruit (Punica granatum) has always been known as the symbol of health, fertility and eternal life back in ancient time. Pomegranate is in the subclass Rosidae and in order Myrtales, together with a few other fruits which are guava (Psidium sp.) and feijoa (Feijoa sp.) or known as Pineapple guava. (Stover & Mercure, 2007). The name Punica is from the Roman name of Carthage, Pheonicia (Holland, Hatib, & Ya'akov, 2009) which is the ancient city of northern Tunisia (Stover & Mercure, 2007). Punica granatum was first known as Malum granatum which means “grainy apple” (Holland et al., 2009) or the apple of Carthage (Goor, 1967). Pomegranate fruit is rich in antioxidants from polyphenolic class

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