Sweet Red Antioxidants

While walking around Jerusalem, before we proceeded to Mount Tabor, we passed by some fruit stands. My eyes feasted on colorful round fruits of yellow, green and red.

Before boarding our bus, I saw a cart where man was working his magic on a pressing machine, squeezing the juice out from a red fruit.

We were informed that the bright-colored fruits are pomegranates. Out of curiosity, since people walking by were buying a glass of the juice, we bought some and kinda shared one glass of the juice. Wow, it tasted great! Sweet, with no added sugar. Must be super, if really cool when drank.

Just a thought, if I were a fruit with hundreds of seeds and was squeezed by the Lord, will my juice be sufficient and would it be sweet?

Wait, I remember some good antioxidants for the soul: Acts of Mercy.

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Pomegranates are drought-tolerant. They can be grown in dry areas with either a Mediterranean winter rainfall climate or in summer rainfall climates.

The edible fruit is a berry and is between a lemon and a grapefruit in size, 5–12 cm in diameter with a rounded hexagonal shape, and has thick reddish skin and around 600 seeds.

Each seed has a surrounding water-laden pulp — the aril — ranging in color from white to deep red or purple. This aril is the edible part of the fruit. The seeds are embedded in a white, spongy, bitter pulp.

The juice from a pomegranate offers some of the worlds most powerful antioxidants. In fact, studies show that pomegranate juice has more antioxidants than other known antioxidant drinks such as red wine, green tea, blueberry juice, cranberry juice and orange juice.

Source: Wikipedia