Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Jismi Joy

Abstract:
Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is a healthy tropical fruit from the Passifloraceae family. The purple passion fruit can be found from southern Brazil to northern Argentina, passing via Paraguay. For a long time, the Nilgiris in the south and several portions of northern India have benefited from a moderate harvest of purple passion fruit. The passion fruit is high in antioxidants, flavonoids, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-aging compounds. This fruit is extremely valuable economically since all of its parts (seed, peel, blossom, and pulp) contain medicinal and therapeutic characteristics. Besides this it has many applications in food industry. Many value added products are processed from passion fruit. Jam, jelly, syrup, biscuits, pickles, passion seed oil are some of the processed food products from passion fruit.