Passion Fruit-Healthy Juice & Dessert

Passion fruit is an everlasting tree-living vine which is native to the tropical regions of America.
The two most common commercial varieties are purple passion fruit or Passiflora edulis L. where mainly cultivated in Africa and India and yellow passion fruit or P. edulis f. flavicarpa in Peru, Brazil and Ecuador. Passion fruit in Spanish is Granadillas.

The passion fruit is now being propagated in Davao City by small farm growers, and has a set market which is together with the country's major fruit juice maker.


Atty. Antonio Partoza, president of the Mindanao Fruit Industry Development Council (Minfruit) revealed that, there are eight cultivators in the city which are earlier into growing the fruit.

Harvesting Passion Fruit
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It is rich in phytochemicals.

The juice but generally the leaves of passion fruit contain the alkaloids, including Harman, which has blood pressure lowering, sedative and antispasmodic action. The passion fruit leaves are used in many countries as medicines. Its flower has a mild sedative and can help to induce sleep. The passion Flowers has been used in the treatment of nervous and easily excited children, gastrointestinal disorders, bronchial asthma, insomnia, nervous, and menopausal problems.

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