I assumed the initial question was about freezing the entire pomegranate. I froze 8 of them for two weeks and after I thawed two of them out they were complete mush and a horrible scene. But the discussion is about the seeds and I'm certainly going to try the techniques discussed here.
YES you definitely can freeze them......and fyi i do NOT agree with the user that said they are mushy if you do so.......mine are crispy as can be.....i stock up on poms during the winter, seed them and place seeds on non stick tin foil single layer cookie sheet......freeze for a few hours til firm then transfer seeds to heavy duty ziploc bag........enjoy pomegrante seeds year round....by the way, walmart has a pomegranate de-seeder for a few bucks in the produce section......it's the best contraption in the world--enables you to de seed a pom in about 90 seconds!!!
I have to have a load of pomegranate arils, but, instead of freezing I have decided on preserving them as I would a rumtopft. That is, I have peeled and saved the arils and covered the in rum and sugar. In this case I used white rum to preserve the color. I have successfully made fresh summer fruit rumtopft annually. I suspect this will be equally as delicious. "IF" you don't like the alcohol then simply rinse and serve. I prefer the nice taste of the rumtoptf and use the left over liquor as a drink, or an additive to a vodka martini - with the arils, of course.
This is just another "option".
Not something that I've tried (so not speaking from actual knowledge) but think Respect has it right. I'll bet the little frozen arils would be really nice little treat though -- kind of like frozen grapes! (a household favorite)
I am going to say you can and you can't...they will freeze fine and the taste won't change, but when you unfreeze them the texture of the seed will be compromised because of the fact that water expands when it freezes. So the post frozen seeds will likely be mushy.
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This is just another "option".