I’ve become so jaded that the first thought I have about this study (and others like it) is that it was paid for by the pomegranate lobby.
I didn’t use to be this way, but I find it harder to trust anyone and anything lately especially when it comes to, “science” after all the damage done by Dr. “I am the Science” evil little dwarf.
You get the $cience you pay for.
That is certainly possible, but natural foods generally don’t make the fraudsters rich as quickly as quack medicines. So it’s less probable because fraudsters generally focus on the more lucrative lies.
Occam’s Razor: The principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is generally to be preferred.
Occam: English scholastic philosopher; assumed author of Occam’s Razor (1285-1349)