Passion fruit is rich in antioxidants, which are compounds that help neutralize harmful free radicals in the body. The cake uses everyday ingredients: self raising flour, sugar, butter, eggs and milk in addition to the passion fruit pulp. Okay, so my first tip for you with these delicious Moscow Mules is to use pineapple vodka. The recipe tells you to use whatever you want, but pineapple is the only way to go on these. I highly recommend searching for passion fruit vodka; it’s sometimes hard to find, but it makes this drink exceptionally good.

Cazarin, C. B. B., Silva, J. K., Colomeu, T. C., Batista, Â.G., Meletti, L. M. M., Paschoal, J. A. R., et al. (2015). Intake of Passiflora edulis leaf extract improves antioxidant and anti-inflammatory status in rats with 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid induced colitis. J. Funct. Foods 17, 575–586. doi: 10.1016/j.jff.2015.05.034 This drink, though, lets me enjoy the potency of a bourbon-based drink without ever having to taste it.Topping your favourite cakes, cheesecakes, desserts or even breakfast with this passion fruit coulis is like pouring little bit of sunshine to your plate. Sweet yet slightly tangy, super fresh and with a delicious crunch, this passion fruit compote is the perfect addition to any of your sweet cravings - just like this Passion Fruit Curd! Next, it’s just as important to get rid of any extra oil, which will soak right into your cake and make it soggy.

From the halved passion fruit and flowers to the fluffy coconut frosting and passion fruit caramel drizzle (yes, really), you’ll have a hard time cutting into it. Keep it Cold: Store your passion fruit puree in an airtight container in the fridge for a couple weeks. For long-term storage, freeze in an ice cube tray and then store in a bag once frozen. This should last for six months. What is Passion Fruit Puree Good For? Twenty nine triterpenoids varying in chemical structures have been isolated from fruits, leaves, stems, and roots of P. edulis ( Bombardelli et al., 1975; Yoshikawa et al., 2000a; Yoshikawa et al., 2000b; Zhou et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2013; Yuan et al., 2017). Cycloartane triterpenoids have showed the significant protective effects against damage of PC 12 cell induced by glutamate, which can be used for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease ( Xu et al., 2016). Cycloartane triterpenoids cyclopassiflosides IX and XI at 50 mg/kg displayed antidepressant-like effect ( Wang et al., 2013). AlkaloidsI almost always opt to add berries for both color and flavor, with raspberries being the best of the bunch.

It’s just as easy to make and is equally delicious – though sweeter – but its color is lighter, more of a peach than an orange. Passion fruit is a very refreshing tropical fruit and full of minerals in fruit, juice, peel and seeds, which are known to be effective to human health. For instance, Fe, Zn, Mn, B, Cu, K, N, Ca, P, Mg, S, and Mo of skin and pulp and seeds of passion flower are 150, 41, 40, 25, 10, 3, 0.8, 0.4, 0.21, 0.15, 0.08, 0.08, and 110, 50, 16, 9, 6, 2, 1.4, 0.1, 0.25, 0.15, 0.08, and 0.12 ppm, respectively. We can consider passion fruit plant leaves as good resources of calcium and zinc due to the high content of both minerals. In the youngest leaves, the contents of N, P, K, and Zn are relatively high while the Ca, Mg, B, Cl, and Mn are relatively low ( Freitas et al., 2007). Table 1 shows passion fruit juice is a source of minerals that naturally rich in Ca, Mn, P, and K, and so forth. However, the information on harmful elements of passion fruit is rather scarce. Flavonoids You might notice that cakes recipes from afar (primarily Europe and Australasia) don’t include a lot of frosting.Finally, always dust flour inside using a sifter and then spoon your batter inside, rather than pouring it out of the bowl. The pulp of passion fruit can be both eaten or commonly juiced. The juice is often added to other juices to enhance its aroma. The passion fruit peel accounts for about 51% the fruit wet weight. Because of the large amount of fruit juice production, many thousand tons of seeds, pulps, and peels as agricultural coproducts during juice extraction. Peels, as the major wastes, have become an important burden on the environment. With the development of economy and people’s awareness of environmental protection, peel has been used extensively in the industrial production of pectin. It is a widely used functional food raw material with high value in reducing cholesterol levels, reducing hyperlipidemia, and hypertension, improving glucose tolerance and insulin response, helpful to gastrointestinal health and the prevention of some cancers. Pectin is used as a nutritional fiber delivery, gelling agent, and edible coating and stabilizer in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industry, especially in the production of confectionery, jelly, and other products ( de Souza et al., 2018). Pectin-based edible coating plays a waterproof role in fruit preservation, which have the functions of preventing moisture transfer and flavor loss, and improving hardness. The production of commercial pectin from passion fruit peel, seeds and bagasse could not only eliminate the problem of waste, but also provide a new source for pectin industry. Conclusions and Future Research Directions Passion fruit is most popular for its attractive nutritional and sensory qualities to the health and well beings of the worldwide consumer. Secondary metabolites in passion fruit have been attracting considerable attention because these compounds exert numerous health benefits and economic value, and thus have been used in nutrition, cosmetics and medicine. Passion fruit and its by-products full of various chemical constituents and phytonutrients including polyphenols, dietary fiber, pectin, carotenes, and vitamin. The chemical constituents and properties of different kinds of passion fruit are diverse. Yellow passion fruit presented higher water and relatively lower nutritional components, while purple fruit presented higher content of vitamin C, vitamin A, fiber and calcium. Different plant parts (leaves, buds, peels, and pulp) and growth stages of P. edulis contain a variety of bioactive components such as total dietary and polyphenols. The yellow passion fruit presented higher content of pectin in peels, high content of carotene, quercetin, and kaempferol in pulps and higher values of total dietary fiber in seeds. The purple fruit was highlighted by a great value of anthocyanins in peels and seeds. Passion fruit peels as food waste account for 50% of the total fruit has also a high potential to obtain functional ingredients because it rich in biological active ingredients. Because of the unique bioactive constituents in passion fruit, diverse nutritional and medical benefits have been watched and recorded. The various extracts from different parts of P. edulis exhibited numerous pharmacological activities including antioxidant, analgesic and anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, anti-hypertensive, hepatoprotective and lung-protective, anti-tumor, antidiabetic, hypolipidemic, antidepressant and anxiolytic-like capacities, and thus are used in phytotherapeutic remedies. In particular, acute toxicity and subacute toxicity studies have shown that a rationalized daily dose of passion fruit is probably safe for consumption. These outstanding results suggest that passion fruit may offer a range of health benefits, such as managing inflammatory and neurological disease, and also preventing some chronic diseases like hypertension and hyperlipidemia. The methanol extract of aerial parts of P. edulis Sims at an oral dose of 75 mg/kg showed anxiolytic activity on the elevated plus-maze model of anxiety in mice, but oral dose of 125 mg/kg did not evoke any significant activity. Whereas, oral at higher doses of 200 and 300 mg/kg showed a mild sedative effect ( Dhawan et al., 2001). Pre-treatment with 50, 100, and 150 mg/kg hydroethanol extracts and 400 and 800 mg/kg of spray-dried powders of P. edulis leaves also showed anxiolytic activity in the elevated plus-maze test in mice. It was suggested that the therapeutic effect of these extracts was due to the presence of a wide range of flavonoids such as isoorientin, orientin, luteolin, apigenin, and chrysin or their glycosides, and so forth ( Petry et al., 2001; Coleta et al., 2006; Otify et al., 2015). Sedative Activity