Pomegranate

The fruit of a small tree, Punica granatum. The fruit has long been a symbol of fertility, for inside its rather leathery skin are many seeds. Pomegranates may be sweet or tart. Sweet ones can be eaten out of hand, and have pink to red flesh and seed coatings; sour ones are used for making pomegranate molasses in the eastern Mediterranean, and their seeds are dried and used as a souring agent, called anardana in Pakistan and northern India.