Description
This fruit is native to Brazil. Passion fruit belongs to the family of passionfruit, or passion fruit. The flowers of this plant are very beautiful, like the crown of thorns of Christ. It is believed that the monks, seeing this similarity, called this flower passionflower.
Passion fruit can vary:
– taste; – size; – form; – color.
Passion fruit rind is often tough – smooth or wavy. Only pulp with an unusually bright aroma is used for food. The fruits grow on vines. When ripe, they fall to the surface of the earth. After that, they are collected. This happens, as a rule, twice a year.
Passion fruit is grown primarily in America. Also, this plant can be found in Australia, New Zealand, on the islands of the Pacific Ocean – for example, the Philippines or Hawaii, in India, Brazil and other warm countries.
Useful properties and composition
Due to its rich vitamin and mineral composition, this fruit is not only tasty, but also healthy. In addition to dietary fiber, complex carbohydrates, vegetable protein, excellent pure water – there are a lot of them in seeds, passionfruit fruits contain fluorine, copper, manganese, iodine, iron, phosphorus, chlorine, sulfur, sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, vitamins C , K, H, E, beta-carotene, B vitamins.
Given the high content of phenolic acids, flavonoids (antioxidants), passionfruit is able to protect blood vessels and the heart, slow down the growth of cancerous tumors, and prevent the appearance of pathogenic microbes.
Of course, passion fruit is recommended to be consumed regularly. Its plant substances, which belong to the class of steroids (sterols), are capable of excellently replacing harmful cholesterol in our blood.
Marauya also has soothing properties – you can sleep more peacefully if you eat a small portion of the fruit before bed.
Passion fruit in folk medicine
In some countries where passion fruit is grown, its fruits are used in traditional medicine. Very often they are used for rheumatism and gout. Passion fruit relieves pain. Also, their use leads to the removal of muscle tension and fever, relief of headaches, attacks of bronchial asthma.