Pomegranates Peel Tea (DIY)

I love pomegranate, it’s a wonderful fruit to incorporate into your diet because it can help reduce brain inflammation and protect against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

After extracting the delicious aryls, do you normally throw out the pomegranate peels, right?

So did I, until I discovered their potential to help keep you healthy and happy.

During the late nineties scientists discovered the health benefits from the discarded part of this extremely beneficial fruit.

Chief among these discoveries were the substantial benefits you can derive from using pomegranate peels, especially in your digestive system.

So before you start tossing away what might be the best part of pomegranates, here are some key benefits to convince you otherwise.

 Benefits of Pomegranate Peels

1. They’re a Great Tool to Fight Heart Diseases

Pomegranate peels are loaded with antioxidants. As their name might imply, antioxidants are extremely effective at eliminating oxidation from LDL cholesterol.

If your LDL cholesterol accumulates too much oxidization, it will eventually wreak havoc in your cardiovascular system, leaving you vulnerable to most heart diseases.

When it comes to antioxidants, I’ve felt that you can never get enough, especially if they come from a completely natural source.

2.They’re Packed with Vitamin C

Vitamin C is an integral part of a healthy holistic diet. Its health benefits cover a lot of areas in your health, ranging from improving your immune system, your cardiovascular system, preventing prenatal health complications, avoiding wrinkles, and reducing your chances of developing ocular diseases.

Pomegranate peels carry enough vitamin c to render vitamin pills or tablets obsolete. This is perfect because we’re trying to base our diet’s needs on completely natural sources.

3.They’re an Effective Form of Detox

Remember the plentiful antioxidants that could help your heart? Well, here’s where they shine again. Pomegranate peels pack enough antioxidants to make them the perfect natural detox you can get your hands on.

If you ever feel the need to detox, be it to keep it in shape or if you feel like you want to spoil yourself, pomegranate peels make the perfect detox tea.




Most of us well known about the benefits of pomegranates, but, very few are aware of the benefits of its peel. We often discard the peel of pomegranates. But this peel is blessed with numerous health and beauty benefits. It is an excellent remedy for stomach infections, throat tonsils, heart disease, acne, wrinkles, mouth odor, hemorrhoids and cough.

Pomegranate peels have more powerful antioxidants such as flavonoids, phenolics, and proanythocyanidins than what the pulp yields.

Health Benefits of Drinking Pomegranate Peel Tea

Prevents Wrinkles & Signs of Ageing

Drinking its tea prevents breakdown of collagen in your skin, in turn promoting cell growth, which helps delay signs of ageing and wrinkles effectively.

Improves Dental Hygiene

Pomegranate peels tea might help cope with a number of dental issues just like avoiding foul breath, gingivitis, carries as well as mouth ulcers.

Remedy for Sore Throat

If you are having sore throat or are suffering from tonsil pain drink pomegranate peel tea, it help you soothe your troubled throat and give immediate relief.

Improve Gut-Health

The peels have got tannis within them which help decrease inflammation of the intestine, swelling of hemorrhoids, tighten up intestinal lining, prevent bleeding throughout diarrhea and improve digestion.

Heart Health

Pomegranate peels tea good for heart disease. It reduces stress and lowers the blood pressure. Mix the sun-dried pomegranate peel powder with warm water and drink it daily or in alternate days to improve your heart health.

Prevent Skin Cancer

Many study show that pomegranate extracts contain a preventive agent that fights against the onset of skin cancer.

Good Moisturizing Agent

Pomegranate contains ellagic acid. This is a very good moisturizer and is rally effective in trapping the moisture in your skin. It ensures that the moisture in your skin cells does not dry out. Your skin is kept well hydrated.

Homemade Pomegranate Peel Tea Recipe

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon of my herbal mixture or
pomegranate powder
mint
ginger
cumin
organic green tea leaves
1 teaspoon of honey

Instructions:

Put all the herbs in a coffee grinder and grind together to a fine powder.

Add in 1 teaspoon of the mixture to 1 and 1/4cup of water and bring to boil for 1 minute.

Remove from the fire and allow to steep for 5 minutes.

Strain the tea and add in the honey.

Enjoy!





I said to her, do you usually discard the peels each time you eat pomegranates and she said yes. Well, that's got to stop cos you are missing a whole lot from this medicinal and nutritious fruit. I made her understand that apart from using the pomegranates seeds for food preparations and juices such as the pomegranate juice, the peels can also be used for making tea.

First of all, you are not supposed to discard the pomegranates peels. Pomegranates peels are used for making pomegranate peel tea, which is packed with so many nutrients and antioxidants. Making the pomegranate peel tea is pretty easy; just wash the peels and add in a kettle of boiling water or a jug of hot water.

Cover and allow to stand for at least 30 mins before drinking. I must confess that the tea is slightly bitter but you can add a bit of honey, maple syrup or sugar for sweetness. For this recipe, I used maple syrup and it tasted perfectly okay.

Although I shared some few reasons with my friend but I am also using this opportunity to share with you some important things you definitely need to know about the pomegranate tea.


Pomegranate is botanically known as Punica granatum and the tea is simply made from its peels. Pomegranate peels have been proven to contain numerous nutrients, vitamins and anti-oxidants that are essential for the healthy functioning of the body.

Some Health Benefits of Pomegranate Peel Tea include:

Acts as a Detoxifier
Pomegranate peel tea is an excellent detoxifier due to the presence of antioxidants. Drinking pomegranate peel tea eliminates toxic substances from the body thereby keeping our body systems sound, healthy and capable of fighting diseases.

Boosts the Digestive System
Drinking the pomegranate peel tea is essential for destroying pathogenic cells in the gastrointestinal tracts thereby promoting healthy functioning of the digestive system. Drinking pomegranate tea helps to treat colitis, diarrhoea, bile, salmonella and ulcers.

Offers Relief from Sore Throat
Gargling the pomegranate peel tea or powdered pomegranate peels mixed with salt and hot water helps to give quick relief from sore throats.

Maintains Healthy Heart
Pomegranate peels are an excellent source of antioxidants that penetrate into the hot water for the body to utilise. The presence of antioxidants in the body is vital as they help to get rid of LDL cholesterol oxidation. It is worthy to note that excessive oxidization accumulation in the body is harmful to the cardiovascular system and can lead to heart diseases.

Good Dental Hygiene
Warm pomegranate peel tea with salt can be gargled by those suffering from a toothache. Gargling the tea also helps to tackle bad breath and mouth odour.

Reduction of Ocular Diseases
Drinking the pomegranate peel tea can help to minimise the onset of eye problems.


Excellent Source of Vitamin C
Pomegranate rinds are an excellent source of Vitamin C, therefore, drinking the tea supplies our body with enough vitamin C that are essential for repairing damaged body cells, healing wounds, cuts and bruises as well as for maintaining strong teeth and bones


Treatment of Cough

Pomegranate peels are anti-microbial in nature thus the tea can be taken for fighting cold and cough.