Why on earth would you ever eat a fucking pomegranate?!?!, you ask incredulously.
Good question!
Pomegranates = 🤮
But here’s the thing…
The juice from one pomegranate contains more than 40 percent of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C, an essential nutrient whose benefits you can find out more about by clicking the hyperlink to read the nutrition post about yucky oranges.
Beyond offering many of the same benefits of oranges because of its high vitamin C concentration, pomegranates may also have an effect on exercise performance due to the abundance of antioxidants, or chemicals that reduce inflammation and protect cells against damage from free radicals. Speaking to this point, recent studies suggest that the antioxidant properties of pomegranate may help improve endurance by decreasing oxidative damage produced by stress as you work out. Consuming pomegranate before a workout is also believed to help reduce post-workout muscle soreness for the same reason.
Yeah, I know, pomegranates sound mighty, mighty tasty right about now!
Pomegranate Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 fruit (4″ dia) (282g)
• Calories: 234
• Total Fat: 3.3g
• Cholesterol: 0mg
• Sodium: 8.5mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 53g
• Dietary Fiber: 11g
• Sugar: 39g
• Protein: 4.7g
Glossary: exercise, muscle soreness, work out, workout
