Description

Passion Fruit Edibles Description

Passion Fruit Edibles, are chewy sugar coated drops with  passion fruit flavour. They contain 500mg per pack.

Which Passion fruit are edible?

A question often asked is if the common passion flower P. caerulea, has edible Passion fruit. They are edible when ripe (going from green to orange yellow) but are usually insipid though some are tastier than others. Note Always let any Passion fruit drop rather than trying to pull them off. Some Passion fruit are toxic, even some of the edible ones may be when unripe.

Varieties

The most widely grown Passionfruit are the many hard shelled purple or yellow fruited P. edulis varieties. These all germinate very readily and keep relatively well. Perhaps 60 or more Passiflora have fruit we would judge as edible, a number of these may only be grown as food crops for local consumption as they have soft fruit which do not keep or travel well. e.g. P. tripartita var. mollissima and other Tacsonia which taste good but deteriorate quickly after harvest. I have tasted some which have made their way to UK and they are not great. Many also are quite full of  crunchy seed which are not appealing.