--- title: Could Pomegranates Help Stop Cancer Cells? description: POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juice and other pomegranate-containing products, ran afoul of the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission in September for... canonical: https://time.com/archive/7143165/pomegranate-juice-could-help-treat-prostate-cancer-but-still-no-panacea/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2010-12-14T22:15:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-16T11:22:10.490Z article:section: Health og:title: Could Pomegranates Help Stop Cancer Cells? og:description: POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juice and other pomegranate-containing products, ran afoul of the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission in September for... og:url: https://time.com/archive/7143165/pomegranate-juice-could-help-treat-prostate-cancer-but-still-no-panacea/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc65a49dada4e30f4/698a95089d83e84fd2ba062e/pomjuicecropped1.jpg?branch=production&width=307&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 307 og:image:height: 173 og:image:alt: 85507209 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Could Pomegranates Help Stop Cancer Cells? twitter:description: POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juice and other pomegranate-containing products, ran afoul of the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission in September for... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc65a49dada4e30f4/698a95089d83e84fd2ba062e/pomjuicecropped1.jpg?branch=production&width=307&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Health](/section/health/) # Could Pomegranates Help Stop Cancer Cells? > Sponsored content. 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(**More on Time.com:** [FTC and FDA to POM: You’re Not So Wonderful](http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/27/ftc-and-fda-to-pom-youre-not-quite-so-wonderful/)) Working with pomegranate juice, a team of researchers at the University of California-Riverside found that certain ingredients of the juice appeared to inhibit cancer cell movement and to weaken the effect of a protein produced by bone marrow that causes prostate cancer cells to metastasize to the bone. [_ScienceBlog_](http://scienceblog.com/41016/ucr-scientists-identify-pomegranate-juice-components-that-could-stop-cancer-from-spreading/) explained: --- > “” --- Molecular biologist Manuela Martins-Green and her team presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology on Dec. 12\. “This is particularly exciting because we can now modify these naturally occurring components of the juice to improve their functions and make them more effective in preventing prostate cancer metastasis,” said Martins-Green in a statement. (**More on Time.com:** [A Healthy Rosh Hashanah: A Sweet New Year, Without the Sugar](http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/08/a-sweet-new-year-even-without-the-sugar/)) Of course, the bottom line for POM Wonderful is that this study still doesn’t show a causal link between drinking pomegranate juice and cancer prevention. **Related Links:** [A Single Cigarette Can Raise the Risk of Cancer and Heart Disease](http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/09/a-single-cigarette-can-raise-the-risk-of-cancer-and-heart-disease/) [Putting to Rest Fears that IVF May Be Linked to Cancer](http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/08/putting-to-rest-fears-that-ivf-may-be-linked-to-cancer/) [Should We Worry About Radiation Exposure From New Airport Scanners?](http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/17/should-we-worry-about-radiation-exposure-from-new-airport%c2%a0scanners/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7143165/pomegranate-juice-could-help-treat-prostate-cancer-but-still-no-panacea/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7143165/pomegranate-juice-could-help-treat-prostate-cancer-but-still-no-panacea/"},"headline":"Could Pomegranates Help Stop Cancer Cells?","datePublished":"2010-12-14T22:15:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-16T11:22:10.490Z","description":"POM Wonderful, maker of pomegranate juice and other pomegranate-containing products, ran afoul of the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission in September for...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7143165/pomegranate-juice-could-help-treat-prostate-cancer-but-still-no-panacea/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc65a49dada4e30f4/698a95089d83e84fd2ba062e/pomjuicecropped1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc65a49dada4e30f4/698a95089d83e84fd2ba062e/pomjuicecropped1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"85507209","caption":"85507209","creditText":"Getty Images/StockFood","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7143165/pomegranate-juice-could-help-treat-prostate-cancer-but-still-no-panacea/","name":"Could Pomegranates Help Stop Cancer Cells?"}}]}] ```