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 fruit (Passiflora edulis / P. edulis flavicarpa) is used for anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. There are two varieties of the 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.
Yellow Version of the Fruit, or "maracuyá"
Traditional medicine uses it for urinary tract infections, much like the cranberry. The Vitamin C, potassium and other relaxing agents in this fruit, may help with asthma or spasmodic coughing conditions.
The nutritional benefits of are:
It can help with:
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Anxiety
- Insomnia
- Asthma
Studies suggest that the Fruit can fight chronix inflammation, which is increasingly being linked to more diseases.
See common names for the Fruit by going to our Passion Fruit Names webpage.
An excellent source for more information about the Fruit is on the California Rare Fruit Growers' website. A link to that website is below:
More Information on the Fruit
Passion Fruit Products Online
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