{"id":2036,"date":"2020-12-28T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:59:48","slug":"pomegranates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/pomegranates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomegranate — An antioxidant-packed fruit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you were a kid did you like pomegranates? \u00a0I remember begging my Mom or Dad at the store to buy me a pomegranate! \u00a0So many times I would hear this … “No, you won’t like it!” or “It’s too messy!” \u00a0Yep, I was one of those kid! \u00a0I actually really liked them though, they were juicy and tart and I always wished I had asked for TWO instead! \u00a0They would leave my hands red and make my Mom mad. \u00a0I remember learning of pomegranate’s from a friend and so thankful I did. \u00a0What a fruit! \u00a0Who knew you could eat healthy at a young age without being forced .. LOL.<\/p>\n

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I still absolutley LOVE pomegranates to this day! \u00a0I now buy the 100% Juice from POM Wonderful, YUM! \u00a0I love to eat fresh pomegranates but .. my Mom was right .. they are pretty MESSY! \u00a0I use vinyl gloves now as I don’t care for red fingers like I did as a kid! \u00a0But did you know that pomegranates have long been part of the list of antioxidant-packed fruits, which is why drinking pomegranate juice is so healthy for you. \u00a0Great for your arteries and cardiovascular health as well!<\/p>\n

Back in 2002, POM Wonderful decided to delve into the pomegranate juice market and released it\u2019s fun-shaped plastic bottles of pomegranate juice.<\/p>\n

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This is the brand I drink! \u00a0Visit their site here: \u00a0POM Wonderful<\/a><\/p>\n

Pomegranates are a Fall – Winter fruit and if you are lucky enough to find any fresh in the store’s, be prepared to spend at least $2 each! \u00a0OUCH!<\/p>\n

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That is why the Tacky Farmer Girl has decided to start growing my own trees. \u00a0They will take a few years to fruit from seed but they will be so worth the wait! \u00a0We may have some extra baby trees available for sale at some point .. we will let you know when.<\/p>\n

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Other great sources of antioxidants include blueberries, acai berries, and dark chocolate. Anything that is rich in Vitamins C, or B, or that contains Selenium or Beta-Carotene is considered rich with antioxidants, according to Pat Kendall, Ph D<\/p>\n

Of course the Tacky Farmer Girl will be growing blueberries, a\u00e7a\u00ed berries too! \u00a0If we could grow Dark Chocolate we would! \u00a0Hmmm .. we may need to grow Cacao … another blog post!<\/p>\n

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…. until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you were a kid did you like pomegranates? \u00a0I remember begging my Mom or Dad at the store to buy me a pomegranate! \u00a0So many times I would hear this … “No, you won’t like it!” or “It’s too messy!” \u00a0Yep, I was one of those kid! \u00a0I actually really liked them though, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_7680-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJnUO-wQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tackyfarmergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}