“…Washing and sanitization is done to remove dirt, pesticide residues, and microorganisms responsible for foodborne pathogens, quality loss, and decay (Rico, Martin‐Diana, Barat, & Barry‐Ryan, ). Outer skins (husk) of healthy whole pomegranate fruit should be rinsed with sterile distilled water (Banda, Caleba, Jacobs, & Opara, ; O'Grady, Sigge, Caleb, & Opara, ), sodium hypochlorite solution 200 ppm (Caleb, Opara, et al, ; Hussein, Caleb, Jacobs, Manley, & Opara, ), clean water for 2 min (Ghasemnezhad, Zareh, Rassab, & Sajedic, ), 200 ppm chlorine water (Bhatia & Asrey, ; Bhatia, Asrey, & Varghese, ), sodium hypochlorite solution 100 ppm for 5 min followed by rinsing with sterilized tap water (Maghoumi et al, ; Oz & ulukanli, ) and chlorinated water 150 ppm for 2 min (Ergun & Ergun, ).…”