Short Essay About Passion Fruit

Granadilla- Everything you need to know about the passion fruit

Today I decided to try something different for a change. I had an instant urge to try something sweet, healthy and unusual so I headed to the nearest green market. Grapefruits, mangos, watermelons, I just love the smell of fresh fruits and not to mention the enormous health benefits that each one of it has on our overall health. However, I was immediately drawn to something which looked like a tropical fruit and I have to admit I have never seen it before or it haven`t caught my eye yet. The lady who works on the market knows me well and I started chatting with her about this fruit. It is usually known by the name passion fruit and I was appalled by the enormous nutritional value of this mysterious fruit. I decided to do an additional research at home.

Getting to know granadilla

Scientific name: Passiflora edulis

Other names: Passion fruit, Yellow Passion fruit, Purple Granadilla, Granadilla

I started to dig a little deeper and information started flowing from everywhere. The granadilla (we will use this name further in this article), is actually a subtropical fruit which grows in the wild regions of South America, probably originates in Paraguay. Its name origin, passion fruit is

In fact, passion fruit or granadilla, provides our body with more than a 100 per cent of the recommended daily dose of vitamin C. All of these compounds, also known as antioxidants, as we previously mentioned they are extremely important in eliminating free radicals and preventing them from harming the body. Vitamin C is a well-known vitamin, especially as protector of the body from flues and viruses as well as foreign bodies which attach our organism. This property of boosting the immune system wasn`t well known until modern times, but nowadays granadilla is used as a substitute to medicines and immune boosting