The pomegranate is the fruit used in a Greek New Year's Eve good-luck tradition.
In many Greek households, a pomegranate is brought into the home and broken at the threshold around New Year's Day. The scattered seeds are associated with abundance, fertility, and prosperity. In some versions, the head of the household or another family member throws the fruit against the door after returning from a church service.
The custom draws on the pomegranate's long symbolic history in Greek culture and mythology. Its many seeds made it a natural image of abundance, while ancient stories connected the fruit with figures including Persephone. Modern practices vary, and not every Greek family follows the ritual in exactly the same way.
The tradition is sometimes confused with the Greek vasilopita cake, another New Year custom. Vasilopita contains a hidden coin, whereas the pomegranate ritual uses the fruit's seeds and the act of breaking it at the entrance.