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'''Dadima''' has been used for thousands of years to cure a wide range of diseases across different cultures and civilizations. It has great nutritional value and numerous health benefits. This plant is belongs to '''Punicacea''' family.<ref name="Plant family"/>

Pomegranate fruit arils contain huge amounts of organic acids, sugars, minerals, vitamins, and polyphenols that show antioxidant effect. Moreover, flavonoids are chief polyphenols of fruit, condensed tannins and hydrolysable tannins. Hydrolyzable tannins including ellagitannins and gallotannins consist of the common constituents present in pomegranate, and punicalagin is the major hydrolyzable tannin present in pomegranates. The juice of arils consist of water, sugars such as glucose, sucrose, and fructose, 1.5% pectin, organic acids including citric, malic, tartaric, succinic, fumaric and ascorbic acid.<ref name="Chemical Composition"/>

{{Flower|Bisexual|Axillary or terminal|Scarlet red|Many|Flowers scarlet red or white, conspicuous, 3 cm or more in length. Calyx 20-35 mm long, indented slightly above the middle, reddish, somewhat succulent; lobes 5-7,c. 8 mm long, triangular. Petals and stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx. Petals 16-20 x 10-12 mm, broadly obovate, wrinkled, alternating with the sepal lobes. Filaments c. 7 mm long, multiseriate, persistent. Ovary subglobose; style thick, c. 1 cm long, reddish; stigma simple; slightly bilobed. }}

{{Fruit|A berry|2-8 cm across|Partitioned by thin leathery yellow septa; the rind thick and coriaceous.|Seeds red or pink, c. 10 mm long, angular, testa thick, fleshy and juicy|}}

<ref name="Chemical Composition">"Chemical Composition"</ref><ref name="Uses">[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623786 "Uses"]</ref>

<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref><ref name="Ayurvedic preparations">[https://easyayurveda.com/2011/11/04/pomegranate-fruit-benefits-anti-oxidants-plus-tridosha-balancing-ayurveda-details/ "Ayurvedic preparations"]</ref><ref name="Cultivation details">[https://pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?latinname=Punica+granatum "Cultivation details]</ref><ref name="Plant family"]>Karnataka Aushadhiya Sasyagalu By Dr.Maagadi R Gurudeva, Page no:195</ref>