百香果如何食用

百香果如何食用

It's a good thing passion fruit is delicious because the visual of gelatinous goo when it's first cut in half is not incredibly appetizing. 百香果的美味是一件好事，因為當(dāng)它第一次被切成兩半的時候，那種凝膠狀的粘稠的視覺效果并不是很誘人。

Passion fruit is messy, but that doesn't mean you need to make a mess. (Photo: yuda chen/Shutterstock)

It wouldn't be too far-fetched to think that giving it the name passion fruit was a way to make the fruit more tempting to eat, but that's not the case. The history of its name goes in an entirely different direction.

把百香果命名為百香果是為了讓這種水果更誘人，這種想法并不牽強，但事實并非如此。它的名字的歷史走向是完全不同的方向。

How Passion Fruit Got its Name

百香果的名字是怎么來的

Does this flower remind you of a religious symbol?. (Photo: Doikanoy/Shutterstock)

Rather, it's named after the passion of the biblical Jesus. When Spanish missionaries to South America first discovered the flowers that turned into the fruit, they saw them as symbolic of the crucifixion. Looking at the photo above, you can see why. According to Specialty Produce, missionaries saw "the three stigmas as the three nails, the corona as the crown of thorns, the five stamens as the five wounds, the five petals and five sepals as the ten apostles and the purple petals as the purple robe."

確切地說，它是以圣經(jīng)中耶穌的受難來命名的。當(dāng)西班牙傳教士到南美洲第一次發(fā)現(xiàn)可以變成果實的花朵時，便把它們視為十字架的象征?？纯瓷厦娴恼掌?，你就知道為什么了。根據(jù)特產(chǎn)，傳教士認(rèn)為“三柱頭就是三根釘子，冕就是荊棘的冠，五支雄蕊就是五處傷口，五瓣五萼片就是十使徒，紫花瓣就是紫袍。”

How to Pick a Passion Fruit

如何摘百香果

Passion fruit comes in various colors, but they all ripen the same way. (Photo: diogoppr/Shutterstock)

Like other fruits such as watermelon, heaviness is important when choosing passion fruit. When the fruit is heavy, that means it has plenty of moisture inside. The skin of the fruit, whether it's the more common purple passion fruit or the yellow/green version, passion fruit will be wrinkly when it's ripe. If you get one with smooth skin, make sure it has a little give to it when you squeeze it. If it does, you can leave it on the counter for three to five days to ripen up.

像其他水果如西瓜一樣，選擇百香果時重量是很重要的。當(dāng)水果重的時候，意味著它里面有足夠的水分。百香果的果皮，無論是比較常見的紫色還是黃色/綠色的百香果，成熟后都會起皺。如果你買的是表皮光滑的，要確保你捏它的時候它有一點彈性。如果有的話，你可以把它放在柜臺上3到5天讓它成熟。

How to Cut a Passion Fruit

如何切百香果

Passion fruit is easy to cut open. (Photo: Africa Studio/Shutterstock)

Cutting a passion fruit is very easy. Simply cut it in half to reveal the fleshy insides. Once cut, the pulp and the edible seeds can be scooped out using a spoon. They can be eaten as is or used in a variety of recipes. The fruit is tart, so it's commonly combined with other ingredients.

切百香果很容易。簡單地把它切成兩半，露出里面的肉質(zhì)。一旦切好，果肉和可食用的種子可以用勺子舀出來。它們可以直接食用，也可以在各種食譜中使用。這種水果很酸，所以通常會和其他配料混合在一起。

Recipes for Passion Fruit

百香果配方

The flavors of passion fruit and mango work well together. (Photo: SherSor/Shutterstock)

Passion fruit is versatile. It can be made sweet or savory, used as an ingredient in a dessert or a main dish, and made into a juice that can be used in several ways.

百香果用途廣泛。它可以做成甜的或咸的，用作甜點或主菜的原料，還可以做成多種用途的果汁。

About that Banana Passionfruit

香蕉百香果

Not all passion fruit is egg-shaped. (Photo: Al'Fred/Shutterstock)

There's another type of passion fruit, the banana passionfruit, (and it's frequently spelled as one word, not two). It's related to the egg-shaped passion fruit in that it has similar pulp and seeds inside, but it's often found as a wild-growing vine that can do serious damage to surrounding vegetation. It's edible and can be used like its passion fruit cousin.

還有另一種百香果，香蕉百香果(它經(jīng)常被拼成一個單詞，而不是兩個)。它和雞蛋形狀的百香果有相似的果肉和種子，但它經(jīng)常被發(fā)現(xiàn)是一種野生藤蔓，會對周圍的植被造成嚴(yán)重破壞。它可以食用，可以像它的近親百香果一樣使用。