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Lythraceae

Pomegranate family

Jewel-coloured arils, packed wall-to-wall under a leathery rind.

The family

Lythraceae gave the world the pomegranate — a fruit so ancient it shows up in Egyptian tombs, Greek myth and Persian poetry. Inside the leathery rind sit hundreds of arils: translucent ruby beads with a crunchy seed at the heart and a sweet-tart juice that pops on the bite. One fruit is two ingredients in one — beads to eat, juice to press.

Try thisScore the skin around the equator and break it open under water — arils sink, white pith floats.

In this family

1 fruit we source

Off-season
Pomegranate
Punica granatum
Hundreds of jewel-bright arils packed wall-to-wall under a leathery rind. Each one cracks between teeth into sweet-tart juice and a crunchy seed. The fruit that's been around since the Bronze Age — and there's a reason it's never gone out of fashion.

Elsewhere in the Atlas

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