What is the Passion Fruit?

Passion Fruit, Granadilla, Purple Granadilla

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Passifloraceae
Genus: Passiflora
Species: P. edulis
Binomial name: Passiflora edulis

Native from southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina, the passion fruit (Passiflora edulis / P. edulis flavicarpa) is used for anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. There are two varieties of Passion Fruit - one that becomes dark purple in color when it reaches maturity and the other that is yellow at maturity. The fruit is often grown to eat or for its juice. A great product that has the passion fruit in it as well as 18 other antioxidant fighting fruits is this product.

Yellow Passion Fruit, or "maracuyá"

Traditional medicine uses it for urinary tract infections, much like the cranberry. The Vitamin C, potassium and other relaxing agents in passion fruit, may help with asthma or spasmodic coughing conditions.

The nutritional benefits of the passion fruit are:

• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Fiber

The passion fruit can help with:

• Urinary Tract Infection
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Asthma

Studies suggest that passion fruit can fight chronix inflammation, which is increasingly being linked to more diseases.

See common names for the Passion Fruit by going to our Passion Fruit Names webpage.

A great source of Passion Fruit is through this product.

An excellent source for more information about the Passion Fruit is on the California Rare Fruit Growers' website. I have included a link to that website below:

PASSION FRUIT