Re: Re: pomegranate ellagitannins

December 21, 2008

A dehydrator sounds like a very good idea. In the Sacramento Valley

pomegranate juice is squeezed and the husks are spread about 4 inches

thick over large abandoned airports and every day or two it is plowed

to expose more to the sun. When it is dry it is run through a hammer

mill and bagged to be used as cheap feed for farm animals. I would

use this but it is far too filthy for human consumption.

At 07:02 PM 12/21/2008, you wrote:

>Interesting. We love pomegranate and buy it whenever possible. I have

>been wondering how to make use of the rind. The problem is that it is

>winter here wind chills -31 today. How could I do this? A dehydrator?

>

>Cheri

>

> >

> > List,

> >

> > Pomegranates are harvested in California from late August until about

> > the middle of December. The husks are the best part of the

> > pomegranate because of the richness of their ellagitannins. The

> > fresh fruit is widely available during the season, but the price

> > starts to drop about this time of the year.

> >

> > It is not necessary to go through the usual extraction process of

> > cleaning, percolating in water, blending, straining through

> > cheesecloth, extracting with an Amberlite XAD-16 resin column,

> > eluting with methanol, and rotavaping. It is far easier to just

> > section the husk into appox. 2 cm shards and sun dry. Oven drying at

> > low temperatures yields an overly dark and sticky product. After a

> > few days in the sun the pieces harden like weathered leather. I use

> > a Vitamix to quickly grind the hard chips to a powder for encapsulation.

> >

> > I am increasingly teaching such methods in my seminars program at the

> > Del Mar, CA retreat center. The whole point is for you to wrest

> > control from those who would own your health and award this control

> > to a much more worthy beneficiary -- you.

> >

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