Re: pomegranate ellagitannins

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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

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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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