BRS Mel do Cerrado
BRS Mel do Cerrado is a sweet passionfruit with an edible peel, giving cooks another part of the fruit to use.
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Released 2017
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Taste & texture
- Used for
- fresh pulp, edible peel preparations
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 Mel do Cerrado is ready to eat at its yellow-ripe stage.
breeder guidance · Embrapa Cerrados cultivar description, Brazil; measurement site and sample design unspecified.
Read the evidence
Embrapa describes BRS Mel do Cerrado fruit as yellow-skinned when ripe, with orange-yellow pulp and soluble solids above 17 degrees Brix. These are breeder descriptions for this Passiflora alata cultivar.
- Fruit tested
- Ripe BRS Mel do Cerrado fruit.
- Varieties compared
- BRS Mel do Cerrado
- Use studied
- Understanding source-specific ripeness, flavor and handling differences.
How to spot it
- Skin
- Yellow peel at maturity.
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
embrapa.br ↗Context & source
Embrapa cultivar profile explicitly describes Mel do Cerrado fruit colour as yellow; no peel/flesh sub-organ claim is made.
Original record: yellow
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- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
- Flesh
- yellow-orange
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 mass120–300 g
Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
embrapa.br ↗Context & source
Source-reported fruit-mass range, not the mean.
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Origin & family
Where BRS Mel do Cerrado began
- Released
- 2017
Field notes
- Soluble solids (°Brix)
- Soluble solidsMore than 17 °Brix
conditions: Ripe fruit · statistic: Breeder-reported soluble-solids threshold; method not stated.
embrapa.br ↗Context & source
Official Embrapa BRS Mel do Cerrado cultivar description reports total soluble-solids content above 17 °Brix; this is a chemical measurement, not a sensory sweetness/intensity score.
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- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
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- bound operator: > · conditions: Ripe fruit · statistic: Breeder-reported soluble-solids threshold; method not stated.
Original source notes
fruit profile
- scope
- Cultivar description reported by the breeder; numerical traits depend on growing and extraction conditions.
- traits
- uses
- fresh pulp, edible peel preparations
- pulp color
- yellow-orange
- mature peel
- yellow
- fruit mass g range
- 120, 300
- soluble solids brix lower bound
- 17