Wonderful pomegranate
Punica granatum · Fruit
Top 10 pairings
Wonderful is the pomegranate the modern world knows — the large, deep ruby-red cultivar that fills supermarket bins and almost every bottle of pomegranate juice. Its thick, leathery rind, flushed from rose to an intense purple-red, caps unusually large, glassy crimson arils that burst with a bracing sweet-tart juice. Vigorous, heavy-cropping and a strong shipper, it has become the single most-planted commercial pomegranate on Earth.
Picking a good onedrag
Round, pale, sharpLight, shrivelled, mould at the crown
Heavy and full-colouredBuy itHeavy, flat-sided and fully coloured. Scatter it raw, press it, or cook it down to molasses.
Weight and shapeHeavy for its size, sides gone flat
RindTaut, deep even colour, faint sheen
CrownCrown dry and tight, pale brown
Smell at the crownAlmost nothing, faint clean rind
These cues are Pomegranate's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
56%
Edible part
282 g arils · rind and membrane off
504 g
Weight each
each one
45%
Juice
about 450 ml a kilo
Keeping ittap a temperature
Below about 5 C the rind pits and the arils fade, so use the fridge's warmest shelf.
90-95%
Humidity
Loosely wrapped, not sealed
Airflow