Anardana is more commonly known as pomegranate. The pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree that has an average height of five to eight metres. It has a rounded hexagonal shape, and has thick reddish skin. Each of the Anardana fruits bears seeds ranging from 329 to more than 1000. The seeds and surrounding pulp of the tree range in colour from white to deep red, and they are called arils. The seeds and pulp are edible. The seeds are separated from the flesh, dried for 10-15 days to get Anardana. The Pomegranate seed is versatile and now the fruit is no more confined to only being eaten raw or in the juice form. Pomegranates are listed as high-fiber in charts of nutritional value. That fiber, as well as the unsaturated fat they offer, is entirely contained in the seeds. People who choose to discard the seeds forfeit nutritional benefits conveyed by the seed fiber, fat and micronutrients.
