The Relationship Between Pomegranate Phytochemicals, Their Metabolites,

IntroductionThe pomegranate payoff has become popularized across the United States ascribable to health benefit claims.1 With the accounting entry of new products entering the food system, it is important to determine if the phytochemicals touted for their health benefits, due in fact impact physical health in a positive manner.2 The known phytochemicals found in the pomegranate fruit subscribe been proven to have benefits, but it has not been well studied if the compounds themselves hit the benefits, or if their metabolites formed in the gut ar responsible for its some(prenominal) health claims. This review intends to clarify what happens to the pomegranate compounds once it is in the digestive system and how they interact with gut micro biota. The focus of this paper exit be the benefits of the pomegranate fruit in local gut light and whole body inflammation. PomegranateThe pomegranate, Punica granatum L is the p wildominant constituent of two species comprising the Pun icaceae family.2 The pomegranate tree typically grows 12-16 feet, has many briery branches, and can be extremely long lived, as evidenced by trees at Versailles, France, known to be over 200 years old.2 The flowers are large, red, white, or variegated and have a tubular calyx that eventually becomes the fruit. The forward-looking pomegranate fruit can be up to five inches spacious with a deep red, leathery skin, is grenade-shaped, and crowed by the pointed calyx. The fruit contains many seeds (arils) apart(p) by white, membranous pericarp, and each is surrounded by small amounts of tart, red juice. The pomegranate is native from the Himalayas in northern India to Iran but has been cultivated and effected since ancient times over the entire Mediterranean region. The tree is besides cu... ...ation of the microbial ecology of the forgiving colon by probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics to enhance homosexual health an overview of enabling science and potential applications. FEM S Microbiol Ecol, 2005. 52(2) p. 145-52.10.Lee, K.W. and H.J. Lee, The roles of polyphenols in cancer chemoprevention. Biofactors, 2006. 26(2) p. 105-21.11.Schubert, S.Y., E.P. Lansky, and I. Neeman, Antioxidant and eicosanoid enzyme quelling properties of pomegranate seed oil and fermented juice flavonoids. J Ethnopharmacol, 1999. 66(1) p. 11-7.12.Ahmed, S., et al., Punica granatum L. draw off inhibits IL-1beta-induced expression of matrix metalloproteinases by inhibiting the activation of MAP kinases and NF-kappaB in human chondrocytes in vitro. J Nutr, 2005. 135(9) p. 2096-102.13. Available from http//www.mayoclinic.com/health/inflammatory-bowel-disease/DS01195.