Water lemon (Jamaican honeysuckle)

Passiflora laurifolia, P. maliformis

fruit

Yellow passion fruits, oval or round, with sweet, fragrant gray pulp slurped with a spoon in the Caribbean; the calabash pomme has a shell as hard as wood.

Origin

Caribbean and northern South America

Season (United States)

all year round

Preparation

It is cut in half, or the shell pierced, and the pulp scooped out with a spoon, seeds included; the shell is not eaten.

Molecules

In small amounts, not counted Pectins · Insoluble fibers

Did you know?

Its color also earns it the name golden apple in the Caribbean.