Pomegranate, fruit of the desert, a functional food, and a healthy diet

Traditional medicinal plants contain various ranges of chemical contents and they have become popular because effectiveness, frequently inadequate provision modern medicine, preferences cultural beliefs. Pomegranate belongs to the family Punicaceae, its pharmacological activities are due presence wide range bioactive compounds. The current searching was done by keywords in main indexing systems including PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Institute for Scientific Web Science as well search engine Google Scholar. were traditional health benefits, pharmaceutical science, pomegranate, punicalin, punicalagin, ellagitannins. Major polyphenols peel juice pomegranate flavonoids such flavonols (catechin, epicatechin, gallocatechin), condensed tannins, phenolic acids gallic, ellagic caffeic, hyrolysable tannins ellagitannins gallotannins. organic malic citric, seed is fatty (punicic). major alkaloids lignans punigratane isolariciresinol, respectively. fruit has been proven act against diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disorders, diabetes, AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, male infertility, inflammation, coronary heart aging. review summarizes beneficial impacts which recommended consumption. a high potential natural functional food an ancient efficacious drug.