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Intro Passion
Intro Passion
content and potential health benefits. The common species of Passion fruit is
passiflora edulis and the other different species referred as granadilla
(Passion Fruit (kg), 2023).The Passion Fruit plant is endemic to southern
Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. Brazil is the leading producer and
consumer of both fresh and processed passion fruit. Passion fruit was
introduced to the Philippines by Southern America, and it is valued not just for
its flavorful fruit but also as an aesthetic vine.
Passion fruit has a soft pulp and lots of seeds covered in a thick skin
which provides consumers with a pleasant and nutritional option. Sometimes
its described as sweet, although it is actually extremely sour when fresh. The
combination of sweet and sour is what makes it unique. The flavor is
characterized as refreshing, as the fruit ripens, it becomes sweeter, but also
more complicated. Beyond its popularity as a food, passion fruit's flexibility
comes through in a variety of culinary uses, including improving smoothies or
juice and flavoring agent in preparing cake, ice cream, and jam.