ABSTRACT
Passion fruit (Passiora edulis), a vine species, originated from the edges of South American rain forests in the Amazon region of Brazil and possibly in Paraguay and North Argentina. It is round, dark purple or yellow at maturity, with a juicy pulp and numerous seeds [1]. Passion fruit juice is often added to other fruit juices to enhance the aroma [2]. It is cultivated in warm, frost-free areas and becomes naturalized in most of the tropical and subtropical world including South America, South Africa, Hawaii, California, Kenya, Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, and some Asian countries. The most important genus Passiora has about 400 species, which are mostly native to tropical America and about 40 species in Asia, Australia, and the South Pacic and one in Madagascar [3].
