Post #748028 by wupput on Tue, Jul 28, 2015 10:36 AM

Mike, I'd have to say that advice is completely wrong. I've made syrup from fresh passion fruits several times and each time it made large quantities of EXCELLENT tasting syrup for very little money.

Passion fruits are very light, so 2 pounds of passion fruits ($10 or less around here) yields you tons and tons of pulp. Extracting the pulp is as easy as cutting open the fruit and scooping out the insides. I don't actually understand why anybody WOULDN'T use the fresh fruits as a base unless there is lack of availability.

I do remember somebody telling me that fresh passion fruit at Whole Foods was like $5 per fruit so in that case, yes, that would be insane. But if you can get them for a reasonable price per pound, it is SO worth it.

Put it this way. I made some yesterday. I used 6 passion fruit, which cost me around $2-3, and got about 12 oz of really fine tasting syrup. My issue is that the kids have realized how wonderful passion fruit soda is so I need to make extra batches for them!