Grenadilla
Taste: sweet, aromatic
How to eat: cut, eat the inside with a spoon (the seeds are edible)
Ripeness: orange peel
Storage: refrigerator 10 days
Passiflora ligularis, better known as Sweet granadilla or Granadilla, belongs to the Passiflora family and grows as a climber. Granadilla is native to South America and has a strong but fragile, orange skin. The fruit is the shape and size of a plum. The shell is hard and shiny. The fruit contains yellow, jelly-like flesh with black edible seeds. The fruit has a sweet and sour taste.
It is a subtropical fruit, and the pulp is the edible part of the fruit, it is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C and K, phosphorus, iron and calcium. It is consumed fresh and, cooked or made into juice. The skin is not eaten.
