pomegranate ellagitannins

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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.

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.