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A, the main value of passion fruit:
1, food value, the fruit can be eaten raw or as vegetables, fodder. Fruit flesh juicy, add calcium bicarbonate and sugar, can be made into aromatic and delicious drinks. Seed oil, edible and soap, paint and so on.
2, nutritional value, passion fruit nutritional value is very high, slightly sour flavor, some people do not accept the first food, you can take out the fruit flesh with a little sugar to adjust the food, or directly drink beverages. Fruit seeds can be eaten, after eating will not feel abnormal, crunchy can also increase the taste. But try to eat as little as possible, because it is not good for the stomach and intestines, you must pay special attention, so do not worry too much about accidentally eating passion fruit seeds.
3, medicinal value, passion fruit is a natural tranquilizer, relaxation, calming the nerves effect is excellent; treatment of insomnia, inducing natural sleep and deep sleep, eliminating headaches, dizziness and other phenomena; soothe anxiety and tension, depression, nervousness caused by headaches, stomach pain, frequent urination, panic; improve the muscle spasms, twitching, pain, etc., due to nervous tension.
(1) Relieve all the discomforts caused by nervous tension and extreme anxiety; improve extreme emotional depression and mental over-anxiety; treat gas depression, relieve flatulence and help digestion. Passion fruit on the respiratory system diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system diseases, urinary system diseases, orthopedic diseases, surgical diseases, diseases of the five senses, dermatologic diseases have auxiliary therapeutic effect.
Second, the use of passion fruit:
How to make homemade juice with passion fruit, the fruit is green, light green when not ripe, ripe gradually turned dark purple (purple fruit species) or yellow (yellow fruit species),
Can be picked when the fruit is not ripe, put two or three days on the ripe, refrigerator refrigerator for a week can also be. Raw fruit has no food value, the ripe fruit with a knife to cut open the shell, with a spoon to scrape the pulp to the cup or bowl, add the right amount of sugar, stir with a spoon to make the pulp juice flow, put in the refrigerator for half a day to a day, drink with cold water (if you add ice, no need to refrigerate), it became a very tasty and delicious cold drinks.
Expanded Information:
Passion fruit, also known as the egg fruit, love fruit, scientific name: passion fruit, Latin name: Passiflora edulis Sims . Passifloraceae, Passiflora genus herbaceous vine, stem with fine stripes, glabrous. Leaves papery, middle lobe ovate, lateral lobes ovate-oblong, lobe margins with inwardly curved glandular apical serrulations, outside apical 1-angled appendages; inner corona nonfringed, apically entire or irregularly lacerate, yellowish green; ovary obovoid, compressed-clavate, stigma reniform. Berry ovoid, glabrous, purple when ripe; seeds numerous, ovate.
Native to the Greater and Lesser Antilles, now widely planted in tropical and subtropical areas. The fruit can be eaten raw or used as vegetables and fodder. Fruit flesh juicy, add carbonic acid and sugar, can be made into aromatic and delicious drinks (carbonated drinks), can also be made into passion fruit pie. It is used in medicine for its euphoric and strengthening effects.
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