Passion fruit, also known as passion fruit, passion fruit, or Brazil fruit, is a perennial evergreen climbing vine, native to Brazil, currently mainly in China’s Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, and other places planted in large areas. Passion fruit has a unique aroma, with more than 165 kinds of fragrant substances in the fruit. It can send out the rich and complex aroma of mango, pomegranate, peach, litchi, strawberry, and other fruits. Therefore, it enjoys the title of “king of fruit juice”.
The fruit pulp is yellow and sour in taste. It contains protein, carbohydrates and a variety of free amino acids. The organic acid content is 1.5%~5.0%, which is mainly composed of ascorbic acid, citric acid and malic acid. Passion fruit juice has many kinds of vitamins, rich in a variety of mineral elements and high nutritional value. Research reports on passion fruit have been increasing year by year at home and abroad, and more and more studies have found that passion fruit is rich in flavonoids, flavonoid glycosides, alkaloids and other active ingredients.In recent years, new monoterpenes, triterpenes and saponins have been found in passion fruit research.
Passion fruit has not only the edible characteristics of common fruits, but also good health and medical value, such as helping digestion, improving human immunity, improving eyesight, lowering blood pressure, promoting blood circulation, preventing cancer and other effects. It can be developed into functional food with health care effects.
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Passion fruit leaves contain large amounts of cellulose and some dietary fiber, contain rich pectin, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, and they often to mobile can swell energy, the intestinal wall of waste and toxins, adsorption on their surface, along with the metabolism of the body out of the body, so people eat passion fruit leaves, not only can qingchang detoxification, runchang purge.
Passion fruit can be processed into hundreds of concentrated fruit juice and mixed fruit juice. With the enlargement of the juice market and the demand of the product quality, rich smell of passion fruit juice concentrate has great prospects for development, and the traditional heat concentration in the process of processing condition such as temperature, pressure, and enzyme hydrolysis, ultrafiltration process will lead to serious loss of volatile flavor substances and in the process also through chemical reaction to generate new flavor substances, thus affecting concentration fruit juice original flavor. The concentration of passion fruit juice by membrane technology can be achieved without destroying the vitamins, proteins and other nutrients in the juice. The compound fruit juice produced from passion fruit juice on the market not only availably USES the rich aroma of passion fruit juice, but also reduces the pH value of fruit juice, thus significantly improving the quality of the drink. If the combination of passion fruit juice and shatian pomelo juice was developed, the fruit and vegetable compound drink was prepared with passion fruit juice and cucumber with the pH value of 3.8.
So, what are the functions of Passion Fruit extract?
1. Antianxiety
It was found that the methanol extract of passion fruit had obvious anti-anxiety effects in mice, the ethanol extract and water extract had obvious anti-anxiety properties, the anti-anxiety effect was obvious in the low dose and the sedation characteristic in the high dose. The ethanol extract was identified as the flavone isoorientin by NMR technology. Water extract and n-butanol extract of passion fruit have been found to have anti-inflammatory effects to varying degrees. Water extract of passion fruit has been found to inhibit the release of pre-inflammatory cytokines TNF and IL-1. Passion fruit juice has the effect of delaying d-galactose-induced aging in mice, and its mechanism is related to improving the antioxidant capacity of mice liver and heart. Passion fruit extract can significantly control blood glucose, increase superoxide dismutase (SOD) level and decrease catalase level in internal organs in diabetic rats.
2. Anti-alcohol, improves immunity
passion fruit polysaccharide can increase the number of lymphocytes and neutrophils, which is helpful to enhance immunity. Passion fruit ethyl acetate extract of alcoholism mice have therapy effect, its mechanism of action of cereal third transaminase (ALT) in the body, aspertate aminotransferase (AST) activity decreased, thus make the liver homogenate of glutathione (GSH) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) activity increased significantly, effectively reduce the propylene glycol (MDA) in liver homogenate, and the content of triglyceride (TG). Passion fruit has a good anti-allergy effect and can selectively inhibit the production of IgE without affecting the production of mouse spleen cells IgG, IgA and IgM. Its active ingredients are picarinol and resveratrol, which can be developed into corresponding functional foods.
3. Anti-inflammatory sterilization
Anti-inflammatory sterilization is one of the important effects of passion fruit leaf, it contains more alkaloids and vitamin C, and is a natural anti-inflammatory sterilization, the human body has a variety of pathogenic bacteria, people use after fresh passion fruit leaves are chopped, or used it to bubble water to drink, can absorb these anti-inflammatory properties and can make the body eliminate inflammation, it to human energy-saving market there are obvious.
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