Better Red than Dead: How Pomegranates and Raspberries Can Help You Stay Healthy
I love pomegranates and eat them every winter; in fact, when other fruits disappear until the following summer, I know pomegranates will be there to satisfy that craving for something other than oranges, apples, and bananas. Punicalagins are found in pomegranates and are a tannic acid. Tannic acid is found in tea where everyone expects it to be, however, it is also found in many other foods and is good for many things. Punicalagins are hydrolysable tannins, which simply means that they react with water to form other compounds. They are large poly phenol compounds and have high bio availability. They are known to hydrolyze into smaller poly phenols such as ellagic acid in vivo, once they are inside you they do this, where they can then hydrolyze across the mitochondrial membrane of a human colon cell. Very impressive stuff, because both of these poly phenols have properties in human health that are truly beneficial. Phenols are the backbone, so to speak, of most of the antioxidants foun...