How to Make Healthy Pomegranate Juice | Proper Guidelines!

As a passionate juice lover, I know many are eager to learn how to make pomegranate juice at home. We all know that drinking fruit juice around this time than eating fruit provides a better experience and benefits.  

For that, we prefer to drink pomegranate juice than eat it as a fruit with seeds. Moreover, making pomegranate juice is a lot easier than it seems. Thus, please stick with me to learn the easiest ways to make pomegranate juice. 

Health Benefits of Pomegranate Fruit and Juice

Before we dive into making delicious juices from fresh pomegranates, let’s explore the health benefits of this remarkable fruit.

Pomegranates are packed with vitamins, fiber, and essential minerals, offering a wide range of health benefits. Experts suggest that this fruit can help reduce inflammation, lower the risk of heart disease, and may even play a role in preventing tumors and certain cancers.

Moreover, this nutritious and delicious fruit is excellent enough for many foods and dishes. Therefore, in many dishes, you can enjoy this fruit as a tart, roll-up, molasses, juice, and dressing ingredient.

Nutritional Value of Pomegranates

• Vitamin K, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, and vitamin B9 
• Folate aka folic acid 
• Potassium 
• Fat
• Carbohydrates 
• Protein 
• Fiber 
• Glucose 
• Antioxidants 

As you see, a serving of pomegranate consists of many nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. 

Hence,

Benefits of the Pomegranates

• Reduces fast aging.
• Decreases inflammation.
• Lowers blood sugar levels and blood pressure. 
• Holds back the build-up of LDL (low-density cholesterol). 
• Helps to prevent strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, obesity, and other chronic illnesses. 
• Dramatically reduces the risk of tumors and cancers. 

Suggestion: As pomegranates are high-fiber fruits, overeating at once may cause gastrointestinal symptoms. Thus, you should drink a healthy amount of juice per day.

Guides on How to Make Pomegranate Juice!

As I said, most of us enjoy fresh juice extracted from fruits. This way, we can avoid the seeds and fibers making our eating experience annoying. Also, the carbonated juice in stores cannot beat the organic taste of homemade fruit juice.

Moreover, it is worth the effort to taste and enjoy the juice of every delicious fruit that we consume regularly. If you have never drunk a pomegranate, I suggest you do it ASAP! 

Therefore, making juice from fruits and vegetables is easy except for some exceptions (Banana, Avocado, and Cherry). Similarly, Pomegranate juice making is also quite simple and fast. You can drink fresh, cold juice within a minute with proper preparation. 

So, here are the guidelines to make Pomegranate Juice without milk– 

First, start by gathering the things you need beside you in the kitchen to simplify the process. 

Things and Ingredients You Need to Juice Pomegranate

• Pomegranates 
• Standard paring knife 
• Bowls/cups, strainer, and a spatula 
• Juicer blender or masticating blender 

Therefore, you are ready to juice some pomegranates for a delicious glass!

Steps on How to Make Homemade Pomegranate Juice without Milk

• Peel open and break the pomegranates using the knife, and take out a cup or two seed pods. Pour the two bowls of arils inside the blender chamber or juicer’s feeding chute.  
• Now, blend the arils at full speed until they become mushy plumps. Or, if you do want the seeds in the pods to stay intact, you can use pulse blending. Therefore, you will pulse the arils for 10 seconds, stop, pulse again for 10 seconds, and keep doing it until the seeds are separated from the arils. 
• Pour the mushy pomegranate pulp into a bowl through a juicer or pulp strainer. The filter will eliminate all the pulp from the seeds, and only the juice will fall into the bowl. Also, use the spatula to press onto the pulps to hurry the process and get more juice. 
• After you dripped all the juice from the pulps, pour the juice into the glasses. Add sugar or ice to your juice per your taste preference and serve. Moreover, you can refrigerate extra juice for a week and drink it at leisure. 

Pro Tips: If you use a masticating juicer, you will get pulp-free juice in the juicer container. No need for straining. 

Easiest Way to Peel and Break Pomegranates – How to Deseed Pomegranates?

If you find peeling and breaking the pomegranate arils very strenuous, you should first check this out.  

Well, peeling pomegranates seems messy and time-consuming. But do not worry; I have the easiest and fastest way to peel off pomegranates. 

• Wash the pomegranates and dry them with wiping towels. Now, take the paring knife and cut off the top crown and the yellow portion skins without cutting the seeds. 
• After cutting open the upper side, you will see veins-like membranes. Following the membranes, lines make some superficial cuts on the peel. 
• If you pull the cut skins a bit, you will get a pomegranate looking like a flower. 
• Then, hold the pomegranate upside down on top of a bowl. And take a wooden spoon or spatula to beat the hell out of the pomegranates. Ha-ha, I’m just kidding! You will hit the peels or the edible portion of the pomegranate to make the seeds fall without membranes or skins. Keep tapping the peel till all the arils fall off into the bowl. 
• Finally, you have fresh and clean pomegranate seeds within 2 minutes. Therefore, you can eat the seeds right away. Or you can reserve some of the arils inside an airtight container in the refrigerator for a week without a hassle. 

How to Make Pomegranate Milkshakes at Home? – Instructions with Steps

Of course, pomegranate juice is very delicious and refreshing, especially on summer afternoons. But there is something even more delicious and nutritious, and that is a Pomegranate milkshake.

Besides, milkshakes are children’s favorite. My mom used to make pomegranate milkshakes for me, as I wouldn’t say I liked drinking milk at all. However, I always asked for seconds of pomegranate milkshakes.

Further, the drink is very soothing to look at, with a vibrant pink milkshake with a magenta hue while giving off a sweet smell.
Some people say milk shouldn’t be given to pomegranates, which is wrong. But scientifically, it shows that there is no such thing as a pomegranate shake being not good; instead, it’s excellent for health.

Previously, I taught you how to make pomegranate juice without milk. Now, it is high time you learn the recipe for a pomegranate milkshake.

Pomegranate Milkshake Recipe

We shall begin the process by first gathering the ingredients we require to make a delicious glass of pomegranate milkshake. 

Ingredients You Need to Prepare for Pomegranate Milkshake

• 1 or 2 cups of pomegranate seeds (if you don’t know, you can follow my method to peel out the seeds in the fastest way) 
• 2 cups of pasteurized chilled milk 
• 2 tablespoons of sugar or 1 ½ tablespoons of honey (per your taste) 
• Ice (per your preference) 

Instructions to Make Pomegranate Milkshake with Steps

• Pour a cup or two of pomegranate arils into the blender. Pulse for 10 seconds until the seeds and juice are separated neatly. Ensure the seeds are not blended in the process, or the taste will get ruined. 
• Strain the juice from the pulped seeds. 
• Again, pour the extracted juice inside the blender along with milk and honey. Now, blend them again until the mix looks nice and foamy. 
• Take a glass and pour the milkshake out of the blender. You can add cherry or mint leaves on top as decoration. Thus, the pomegranate milkshake is ready for serving and drinking. 

Advice: To get better nutritional benefits try to substitute sugar with honey. 

How to Pick Fresh Pomegranates for Juicing?

My old granny has told me a pearl of traditional wisdom to pick fresh, ripe, and juicy pomegranates. Therefore, you need to be mindful of a few key points to be able to point out a perfectly ripe one quickly. 

• Take the pomegranate that weighs substantially hefty than it seems. 
• In the case of unripe pomegranates, the skin should be smooth, firm, and free of blemishes. 
• The skin feels soft yet rough if you want to pick the ripe ones. 
• The color of a healthy and ripe pomegranate is darkish ruby red with golden brown pigmentation on the skin. 
• Additionally, you can buy pomegranates from the farmers’ markets to find fresh and sweeter ones.

Pro Tips for Better Juicing Experience

If you prep the ingredients in advance, you will get a less messy outcome.

Although blending juice is moderately effective, the perfect way to make juice of pomegranates is pulsing.

By pulsing the arils moderately, the blender separates the seeds from the juice without grinding them. Therefore, the juice comes out sweeter without any bitterness.

Using a masticating juicer will lessen half of your work on the juicing process.

Never follow how to peel pomegranate inside a bowl of water. Although this method seems practical, it will make the seed pods get too wet and rot faster.

Inevitably, you will need to eat all of the arils as soon as possible. Furthermore, you will also be unable to store the seeds for later.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Last Words

You have already learned to make pomegranate juice and enjoy a fresh serving. 

You know that Punica Granatum or pomegranates are superfruits with a high rate of nutritional value. If you still need to try a glass of pomegranate seed juice, I hope you will experience it immediately. More than anything, I guarantee you will love this juice with or without milk or any additives. 

[Explore our comprehensive guide on “How to Juice a Pomegranate in an Electric Juicer” for detailed information.]