Pomegranatecontaining products are not immune to these concerns and
a recent analysis of 27 products labelled as containing pomegranate
by HPLC (Zhang et al., 2009), for pomegranate phenolics including
punicalagin A and B, and ellagic acid, revealed that less than
20% of the tested products possessed the expected HPLC profile,
and five of the tested products contained no detectable levels of
pomegranate metabolites