Pomegranates were a type of fruit.
The First Doctor ate a pomegranate and a chocolate truffle in the city of Morphoton on the planet Marinus. (TV: The Keys of Marinus) He, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton and Vicki Pallister ate a crested peacock with orange and juniper sauce garnished with tongues of larks and baked pomegranates in Assisium in the year 64. (TV: The Romans)
The Eleventh Doctor enjoyed pomegranates. (PROSE: The Water Thief)
According to Erimem, Ra ordered a high priest at Heliopolis to pour gallons of beer dyed with pomegranate which was used to bait Sekhmet with as a lake of "blood". When Sekhmet became stupefied by the alcohol, she was trapped in a salt, or trisilicate, spaceship. (AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon)
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4.8/Pomegranate/12 was the year in which the Church of the Meme split into two different sects, the Adherence of the Repeated Meme and the Subversion of the Repeated Meme. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)