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Passion flower Extract Shows Multiple Health Potential
2025-03-17
Passion flower, is a perennial vine growing in tropical and subtropical areas, native to South America. 1950s by the Chinese Guangdong introduced successful, now Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces are cultivated, varieties of purple fruit, yellow fruit, purple and yellow hybrid fruit. Its leaves are palmate three-lobed, leaf axils with tendrils, with the help of bamboo frames, tree trunks and fences climbing and living. Passion flower is fragrant and beautiful, shaped like a lotus, and like a clock plate and windmill, also known as “clock flower” and “windmill flower”. The fruit is the size of an egg, so it is also called “egg fruit”.
Passiflora when ripe, the skin is purple or yellow, white or orange flesh, black or brown seeds by a layer of film, containing a color like egg yolk juice. Its juice accounts for 38.6%-42.6% of the weight of the fruit, unique and strong aroma, set banana, mango, guava, pineapple, plum, strawberry and other dozens of fruits in one, known as “passion fruit”, “the king of the juice” reputation. Fruit juice made of passion fruit is the current international best-selling novel high-level drinks, with sweet and sour, thirst, help digestion, brain refreshment, nourishing and strengthening of the body and other characteristics.
Passionfruit juice is generally obtained by mechanical or manual pressing, which can be divided into turbid juice, clarified juice, concentrated juice, solid juice several kinds. Turbid juice and clarified juice can be drunk directly, but concentrated juice and solid juice in drinking, the former must be watered down, the latter must be flushed. In addition, it can also be used as an additive for bread, cookies, pastries, candies and other foodstuffs, with its own flavor.



The trace alkaloids and flavonoids contained in passion flower extracts have the effect of activating blood circulation and strengthening the body, lowering fat and blood pressure, and calming and relieving pain, etc. Potassium can treat muscle weakness, neurasthenia, fatigue, drowsiness and other symptoms. Passiflora leaves, roots and even all, have blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis, anti-inflammatory, pain relief, excitatory and strong effect, by the medical profession as “a kind of promising medicinal fruit”.Its seeds contain 10%-16% oil, which is a good edible oil and industrial oil.
In Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China, people have been cultivated as an ornamental flower passion flower. Some residents ingenuity, the purple fruit passion flower and yellow fruit passion flower planted together, let it climb in front of the house behind the trellis, the beautiful flowers fragrance, dense vines shade and cool. Every harvest season, purple, yellow two-color“eggs”hanging high, contrasting with each other, its edible, medicinal, ornamental value is fascinating.
Cross-border applications:
1. Accelerated layout of food and beauty giants
With the growth of consumer demand for “pure labeling”, passionflower extract is rapidly penetrating into many areas:
2. Functional food: Vitality Labs, an American company, launched a sleep candy containing passionflower ingredients, with sales exceeding $10 million in three months;
3. Skin care products: French brand Laurent Botanics utilized its antioxidant properties to develop an anti-blue light serum;
4. Pharmaceutical cooperation: a multinational pharmaceutical company is evaluating the possibility of declaring it as a botanical drug to the FDA.
Currently, large-scale planting bases have been established in Brazil, Yunnan and other major producing regions in China, and the “farmer + laboratory” model is adopted to ensure the stability of the ingredients. According to Global Market Insights, the passion flower extract market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.2% from 2023 to 2030, and its size is expected to exceed USD 1.2 billion.
With modern science digging deeper into the traditional plant, passion flower is morphing from a tropical fruit into a high value-added biological resource. The research team revealed that the next step will be to explore its anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective functions, and seek industrial cooperation to promote clinical translation.
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