BRS Sertão Forte
BRS Sertão Forte is a wild-species passionfruit selection with sharply acidic pulp, grown for processing in Brazil's drier regions.
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Released 2016
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Taste & texture
- Flavour
- very acidic
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
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- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
- Used for
- juice, jelly, sweets, ice cream
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
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- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
BRS Sertão Forte keeps a pronounced acidity even when ripe; ask which passionfruit you're buying.
breeder guidance · Embrapa Semiárido and Cerrados cultivar description, Brazil; no individual sensory-test location supplied.
Read the evidence
Embrapa describes ripe BRS Sertão Forte with pale-green skin and very acidic pale-yellow to whitish pulp, reporting 8–13 degrees Brix. A green peel therefore does not alone establish immaturity for this cultivar.
- Fruit tested
- Ripe Passiflora cincinnata BRS Sertão Forte fruit.
- Varieties compared
- BRS Sertão Forte
- Use studied
- Understanding source-specific ripeness, flavor and handling differences.
How to spot it
- Flesh
- pale yellow to whitish
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
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- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
- Weight
- Fruit mass109–212 g
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
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Source-reported fruit-weight range.
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- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
- Appearance
- light green fruit.
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
embrapa.br ↗Context & source
Embrapa cultivar profile explicitly describes Sertão Forte fruit colour as light green; no peel/flesh sub-organ claim is made.
Original record: light green
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- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
Origin & family
Where BRS Sertão Forte began
- Released
- 2016
Field notes
- Soluble solids (°Brix)
- Soluble solids8–13 °Brix
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
embrapa.br ↗Context & source
BRS Sertão Forte cultivar description; source reports a soluble-solids range, not sweetness intensity or sensory-panel result.
- /details/observations/0/value/scope
- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
Original source notes
fruit profile
- scope
- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
- traits
- uses
- juice, jelly, sweets, ice cream
- taste
- very acidic
- pulp color
- pale yellow to whitish
- mature peel
- light green
- fruit mass g range
- 109, 212
- soluble solids brix range
- 8, 13