Moroccan Pomegranate Peel

✨ Moroccan Pomegranate Peel — A Familiar Fruit in Two Forms

Pomegranate peel is the dried outer rind of the pomegranate, Punica granatum. It is also called pomegranate rind, pomegranate husk or pomegranate skin; écorce de grenade in French; and qchour rroman, qchour roman or قشور الرمان in Moroccan Darija and Arabic. This product brings together two honest forms of the same fruit: irregular dried peel pieces with brown, red-brown and golden inner surfaces, and a fine golden-brown powder. Both have the naturally distinctive, tannic character of dried pomegranate rind.

🌿 Traditional and Cultural Uses

In Moroccan and wider Arab household tradition, families dried pomegranate peel after enjoying the fruit and saved it for herbal preparations. It was traditionally steeped or gently simmered for a dark, astringent drink, and ground peel was kept for preparations where a fine texture was preferred. Keeping the rind was a practical way to carry a seasonal fruit into the months that followed.

🍵 How to Use It

• 🍵 Use Dried Peel for a simple infusion or a gently simmered decoction, then strain before serving.
• 🥣 Choose Powder when you want the same ingredient in a fine form for a homemade herbal preparation.
• 🌿 Add either form to a personal dried-herb blend according to your usual home practice.

🥣 A Simple Home Preparation

1. Rinse the Dried Peel quickly under clean water, or measure the Powder into a clean cup or small pot.
2. Cover with hot water and leave covered, or warm Dried Peel gently in water for a stronger preparation.
3. Strain preparations made with peel pieces before serving.
4. For powder, allow the fine particles to settle before pouring carefully, if preferred.

🧾 Ingredients

100% dried pomegranate peel. Nothing is blended in: the Powder is finely ground pomegranate peel, and the Dried Peel is supplied as loose rind pieces.

🔬 Product Profile

Botanical name: Punica granatum. Family: Lythraceae. Plant part: the fruit rind. Form: dried peel pieces or fine powder. The photographs show the natural contrast between the darker outer rind and golden inner peel, and the warm golden-brown colour of the ground form.

📦 How We Sell It

First choose your form: Dried Peel or Powder. Then choose your weight: 100g, 250g, 500g, 1kg, 2kg, 3kg or 5kg. You receive either loose dried peel pieces or fine pomegranate-peel powder, according to the option selected.

🌤️ Storage

Keep the pouch or container tightly closed in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and moisture. Use a clean, dry spoon for Powder. Stored well, both forms retain their colour, texture and characteristic aroma for future preparations.