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Pomegranate

Punica granatumAlso called grenadine fruit and grenadine fruits

Pomegranate is a fruit. Cooks use the fruit and seeds in baking and as a garnish.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fruit
Part used
Fruit, seed
Family
Lythraceae
Pomegranate, cut

Photo: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use pomegranate

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Garnish

Shopping

Choosing and storing pomegranate

In season · Northern hemisphere

  1. Janin season
  2. Febin season
  3. Marout of season
  4. Aprout of season
  5. Mayout of season
  6. Junout of season
  7. Julout of season
  8. Augout of season
  9. Sepin season
  10. Octin season
  11. Novin season
  12. Decin season

In seasonPeak

In season · Southern hemisphere

  1. Janout of season
  2. Febout of season
  3. Marin season
  4. Aprin season
  5. Mayin season
  6. Junout of season
  7. Julout of season
  8. Augout of season
  9. Sepout of season
  10. Octout of season
  11. Novout of season
  12. Decout of season

In seasonPeak

Nutrition

What 100 g of pomegranate holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 8%Fat 5%Carbohydrate 87%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of pomegranate, raw
Energy83 kcal · 346 kJ
Protein1.7 g
Fat1.2 g
of which saturated0.12 g
Carbohydrate19 g
of which sugars14 g
Fibre4 g
Sodium3 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of pomegranate, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium236 mg
Calcium10 mg
Iron0.3 mg
Magnesium12 mg
Zinc0.35 mg
Vitamin C10 mg
Folate38 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 169134), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where pomegranate is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses pomegranate. Here is where they come from.

Origins

Native to
Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan
First cultivated
in Asia

  1. The 1500s · Americas

    Pomegranate was introduced to Spanish America in the late 1500s.

  2. 1769 · United States

    Spanish settlers introduced pomegranate to California.

On the table

Dishes made with pomegranate

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Kibbeh safarjaliyeh

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include pomegranate.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: pomegranate in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What pomegranate is called

Names in 77 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    granada

  • French

    grenade

  • Italian

    melagrana

  • Portuguese

    romã

  • German

    Granatapfelfrucht · Granatapfel

  • Dutch

    granaatappel

  • Greek

    ρόδι · ροιά

  • Turkish

    nar

  • Russian

    гранатина · гранат

  • Polish

    granat

  • Arabic

    رمان

  • Persian

    انار

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  • Albanian

    shegë

  • Amharic

    ሩማን

  • Awadhi

    अनार

  • Azerbaijani

    nar

  • Basque

    granada · mingrana · alesagar

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    гранат

  • Bhojpuri

    अनार

  • Burmese

    တလည်း · သလဲသီး

  • Cantonese

    石榴果

  • Catalan

    magrana

  • Central Kurdish

    ھەنار

  • Czech

    granátové jablko

  • Egyptian Arabic

    رمان

  • Esperanto

    granato

  • Estonian

    granaatõun

  • Fiji Hindi

    anaar

  • Finnish

    granaattiomena

  • Galician

    milgranda

  • Gujarati

    દાડમ

  • Haitian Creole

    grenad

  • Hakka Chinese

    sa̍k-liù

  • Hebrew

    רימון

  • Hindi

    अनार

  • Inari Sami

    graanaatoomeen

  • Irish

    pomagránait · pomagrainít

  • Japanese

    ザクロ · 柘榴の実 · 柘榴 · ザクロの実

  • Kabyle

    aḍɣaɣ

  • Kara-Kalpak

    anar

  • Kashmiri

    دٲن

  • Kashmiri (Arabic)

    دٲن

  • Korean

    석류

  • lbe

    сунув

  • Malagasy

    Ampongabendanitra

  • Malayalam

    മാതളനാരങ്ങ

  • Marathi

    डाळिंब

  • Mazanderani

    انار

  • Nepali

    दारिम

  • Northern Frisian

    granaat aapel

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    granateple

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    granateple

  • Pashto

    انار

  • Punjabi

    ਅਨਾਰ

  • Serbian

    нар

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Nar

  • Serbian (Latin)

    nar

  • Shan

    မၢၵ်ႇၸင်ႈ

  • Sicilian

    Punica granatum

  • Sindhi

    ڏاڙهون

  • skr

    انار

  • Slovak

    granátové jablko

  • Slovenian

    granatno jabolko · margarana

  • Swedish

    granatäpple

  • Tahitian

    rēmuna

  • Tajik

    анор

  • Tatar

    анар

  • Tatar (Cyrillic)

    анар

  • Telugu

    దానిమ్మ

  • Tibetan

    སེ་འབྲུ།

  • Traditional Chinese

    石榴 · 石榴果實 · 安石榴

  • Ukrainian

    гранат

  • Urdu

    انار

  • Uyghur

    ئانار

  • Uzbek

    ahop

  • Vietnamese

    lựu · quả lựu

  • Võro

    granaatupin

  • Welsh

    pomgranad

  • Western Panjabi

    انار

  • Zhuang

    maksigloux

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q13222088

Photos

Photo: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons