Who was Persephone and why did she not eat pomegranates?

Persephone, in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, and was associated with spring and rebirth. She was kidnapped by Hades to become the queen of the Underworld. According to the myth, she ate six pomegranate seeds while in the Underworld, which bound her to Hades and led to her spending part of the year with him and part with her mother. As a result, her consumption of the seeds symbolizes her duality between life and death, and her connection to the changing seasons.