2006-10-03 10:25:25 · 14 answers · asked by perisamablue 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I did try one and it was ok but then I have the constutution of an ox!!!
2006-10-03 10:48:51 · update #1
Yes, I had one and the fruit was fine..
Quote from site below..
I am often asked if the common passion flower P. caerulea has edible fruit. They are edible when ripe (going from green to orange yellow) but are insipid and not recommened.
2006-10-03 10:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this link http://www.easyfruit.co.uk/passiflora/index.html
Some of the answers to your question sound dodgy to me - I grew up in Queensland where passionfruit abound and ate many of them as a child - never heard of any passionfruit that contained arsenic and the shrivelled up ones are the equivalent of bananas with black bits on them. There are many varieties - some are green some are yellow some the purple ones you find in UK. When they are wrinkly they are on the way to becoming compost! Generally speaking when they are ripe they fall from the vine, however in a colder climate they may well fall from the vine without ripening - if its nice and yellow inside and tastes sweet - I would say go for it.
2006-10-06 23:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by Sue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ISouth of England is probably the only place they would ripen in a good summer. They are edible but I don't think a raw one would be very nice. I have a recipe for Passionflower jelly.
2006-10-03 13:43:10 · answer #3 · answered by piccalilli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - definitely not. they are a natural source of arsenic and there have been cases in South America of children dying after eating the fruit.
It is a shame tho isnt it as the fruit look so wonderful and this year the plants were absolutely laden in fruit.
2006-10-03 10:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive eaten one, I like to try any free food, but it wasnt great and I think it might of given me an upset tummy. If through research you find it is safe to eat I bet some sort of pallateble recipe could be made like a jam. They dont taste nearly as bad as an uncooked sloe or haw.
2006-10-05 04:15:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question came up on our local gardening programme last week and the expert said that none that cane be grown in this country can be eaten.
2006-10-03 10:28:23 · answer #6 · answered by philipscottbrooks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_incarnata
According to Wikipedia, the fruit is edible, though very seedy. And a tea made out of the dried herbage is used as a calming balm, and to induce sleep.
2006-10-03 10:36:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why bother there is nothing really in them , go and buy the proper thing gnarled wrinkley looking ones are the best as they are ripe dont eat the plum looking ones they aint ripe yet !!!!!!!!
2006-10-04 06:06:19 · answer #8 · answered by monty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can eat them if they are fully ripe - but I wouldn't bother.
They are not the same thing as passion fruit.
2006-10-03 10:27:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely!!!
2006-10-04 13:42:41 · answer #10 · answered by weathergirl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋