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Abstract
The pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) belongs to the
Punicaceae family and is nutrient dense food source rich in
phytochemical compounds. The genus punica is known to
include two species P.protopunica and P. granatum (Mars,
2000).
Pomegranates are popularly consumed as fresh fruit and
juice, beverages, food products (jams and jellies) and extracts
wherein they are used as botanical ingredients in herbal
medicines and dietary supplements. Several studies reported that
phytochemical have been identified from various parts of the
pomegranate tree and from pomegranate fruit: peel, juice and
seeds (Elfalleh et al., 2011).
Pomegranates are found mainly in Upper Egypt
particularly in Asuit Governorate due to a result in extension of
land reclamation using newly introduced varieties, to overcome
the increasing amount of export (AOAD, 2014), where the total
production 85415 feddan (Bulletin of the Agricultural
Statistics, 2018). Pomegranate in Egypt has become a promising
crop in exportation, thus its cultivation has been expansion in the
newly reclaimed sandy soils as well as introducing some new
cultivars. In the same time such areas of soils which
characterized with low fertility, (Hamouda et al., 2016).