Passion
Fruit
Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa Degener
Also
known as Yellow Passion Fruit or Maracuya it's famous for making
juices and desserts.
Native
to the Amazon, Passion Fruits are particularly important commercially
in Australia, Hawaii, South Africa and Brazil.
Passion
Fruits are tropical plants, and grown between 1,600 and 2,000
meters altitude, and are available year-round.
They
are rich-flavored and pungent, but pleasantly aromatic. The undiluted
juice is highly concentrated and is an excellent additive to other
fruit juices. It is also excellent served alone with a little
water and added sugar. The juice makes an excellent jelly, pie
filling or as an additive to a cake frosting. It can also be made
into sherbets, wine, or cocktails. Seeds with the surrounding
juice sacs are often added to fruit salads in Australia.
Passion fruit juice is a good source of ascorbic acid (vitamin
C), carotenoids (vitamin A) and niacin.
