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Recycled1 Great Old One Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1823 Location: In front of the computer! Gender: Female |
 Posted: 08-09-2013 14:13 Post subject: Passion Flower fruit -edible or not? |
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My passion flower -the common variety, with white and bluey mauve petals -has rampaged over the fence this summer, leaving loads of droopy, slightly vulgar looking "fruit" (green, but beginning to turn yellow /orange).
Are these edible? Several friends think they might be.
When opened, the "fruits" don't seem to have got much flesh, though they do have a lot of pinky red pips.
Please advise - I may be old, but I don't want to die yet!  |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-09-2013 14:51 Post subject: |
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Wikipedia says yes
Related to the familiar passion fruit, I guess. Nice flavour but expect a lot of seeds. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
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| Posted: 08-09-2013 18:55 Post subject: |
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| You could always squeeze them for the juice, like pomegranates. I can't eat them because they're too crunchy, but I will drink the juice (supposed to be good for the heart). |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 08-09-2013 20:43 Post subject: |
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| It's been a while since I had a vine like that but I do seem to remember looking it up ince and finding out that the green fruits are supposed to be edible but not anything that you'd particularly want to eat. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 08-09-2013 21:30 Post subject: |
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| Yeah, lots of things are 'edible' but have no nutritional value and no particular taste - they are 'edible' inasmuch as you can eat them and they won't do you any harm. |
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| CygnusRex Incubus Joined: 04 Jan 2002 Total posts: 1771 Location: NOT on a ladder, just outside your bedroom window Age: 83 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-09-2013 09:17 Post subject: |
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| I have one of those vines, and yes the fruit are edible once they turn orange. Best just to eat them straight out of the skin and strain the pips out with you teeth as processing the little bleeders is very fiddly (and somewhat messy) |
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| Obake Yeti Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Total posts: 63 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-09-2013 15:38 Post subject: |
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| Mythopoeika wrote: | | Yeah, lots of things are 'edible' but have no nutritional value and no particular taste - they are 'edible' inasmuch as you can eat them and they won't do you any harm. |
Kind of a bizarre comment. Passionfruit is a great source of vitamins A and C as well as iron. (Plus fiber, if you eat the seeds.) I gather they're not used as a flavoring much in the UK? There's a passionfruit yogurt they sell here in the states that just delicious. |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 10-09-2013 18:04 Post subject: |
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| That depends on whether the plant is P. edulis (passionfruit) or P. caerulea ( common passionflower) or some other specie. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-09-2013 21:21 Post subject: |
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| Obake wrote: | | Mythopoeika wrote: | | Yeah, lots of things are 'edible' but have no nutritional value and no particular taste - they are 'edible' inasmuch as you can eat them and they won't do you any harm. |
Kind of a bizarre comment. |
Not really. For example, I've eaten stewed up stinging nettles. Not very nice, but apparently edible (I'm still alive). |
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| Heckler20 The Sockpuppet of
Cthulhu's Prodigal Son Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Total posts: 4702 Location: In the Nostril of The Crawling Chaos Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 11-09-2013 08:24 Post subject: |
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| Mythopoeika wrote: | | Not really. For example, I've eaten stewed up stinging nettles. Not very nice, but apparently edible (I'm still alive). |
I've had tea made from nettles and it was very nice (always pick the leaves from the top of the plant as they are less likely to have been 'marked' by passing animals).
For the benefits of nettle tea from a certain perspective:
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| Recycled1 Great Old One Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1823 Location: In front of the computer! Gender: Female |
| Posted: 11-09-2013 18:25 Post subject: |
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| Monstrosa wrote: | | That depends on whether the plant is P. edulis (passionfruit) or P. caerulea ( common passionflower) or some other specie. |
I'm pretty sure mine's the common one. I haven't risked eating the fruit yet! |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 11-09-2013 19:51 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I've had tea made from nettles and it was very nice (always pick the leaves from the top of the plant as they are less likely to have been 'marked' by passing animals). |
I've never eaten nettles or had tea made from them, but I have been flogged with a rather formidable bunch and can honestly say it's quite an amazing experience.  |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 11-09-2013 20:05 Post subject: |
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| Recycled1 wrote: | | Monstrosa wrote: | | That depends on whether the plant is P. edulis (passionfruit) or P. caerulea ( common passionflower) or some other specie. |
I'm pretty sure mine's the common one. I haven't risked eating the fruit yet! |
Sorry, my post was about the difference between passionfruit and passionflower; both are edible but only one is worth eating. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 11-09-2013 21:24 Post subject: |
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| OneWingedBird wrote: | | Quote: | | I've had tea made from nettles and it was very nice (always pick the leaves from the top of the plant as they are less likely to have been 'marked' by passing animals). |
I've never eaten nettles or had tea made from them, but I have been flogged with a rather formidable bunch and can honestly say it's quite an amazing experience. |
The element of suffering brings us right back to the plant in question:
Wikipedia gives seven ways the plant carries the signs of Christ's passion
Nettles are a better bet - unless you can get the full Mel Gibson!  |
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| beakboo Great Old One Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Total posts: 1088 Location: The Home for Bewildered Gentlebeaks, St Peter's Close. Age: 50 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 23-09-2013 11:46 Post subject: |
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| Fuchsia berries are also edible. Not a lot of people no dat. |
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