How to eat a pomegranate

My boyfriend and I bought a pomegranate, because we were curious about how it tasted. The problem is, we couldn’t quite figure out which part we were supposed to eat. The seeds were sweet, but the yellowish inside was extremely bitter. What part were we supposed to eat?

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