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Have you noticed that more U.S. restaurants are adding passion fruit to their menus? This is a response to growing customer demand for creative, exotic, and delicious new flavors. In fact, the fruit’s popularity has grown 20% in the last four years. With a bright gold-yellow interior and an equally bright tropical flavor, passion fruit offers customers a flavor adventure available in both foods and drinks. This year, as customers step into spring with renewed optimism, some suppliers have dubbed passion fruit as 2022’s “flavor of the year.”
Restaurants looking for an easy menu refresh can start by incorporating passion fruit flavorings as digital menu item modifiers. Whether incorporated as a topping for ice cream and cakes or used as a standalone flavor in cocktails and salad dressings, passion fruit provides a unique flavor profile that stands out from the crowd.
Because it is grown around the world, including in North America, South America, and Australia, some restaurants offer passion fruit flavors year round to differentiate themselves from competitors, especially during winter months.
Restaurants purchase passion fruit in many different forms. Frozen passion fruit cubes, sweet syrups, and ready-to-use purees bought in bulk make it easy to add the ingredient to nearly every menu category.
Here are some ideas of how to introduce passion fruit to your restaurant’s menu:
Restaurants looking for an easy menu refresh can start by incorporating passion fruit flavorings as digital menu item modifiers. Whether incorporated as a topping for ice cream and cakes or used as a standalone flavor in cocktails and salad dressings, passion fruit provides a unique flavor profile that stands out from the crowd.
Because it is grown around the world, including in North America, South America, and Australia, some restaurants offer passion fruit flavors year round to differentiate themselves from competitors, especially during winter months.
Restaurants purchase passion fruit in many different forms. Frozen passion fruit cubes, sweet syrups, and ready-to-use purees bought in bulk make it easy to add the ingredient to nearly every menu category.
Here are some ideas of how to introduce passion fruit to your restaurant’s menu:
Savory Entrees
When used as a sauce or marinade, passion fruit spruces up fish, chicken, and pork. Like its citrus-y cousins, passion fruit can also be enjoyed in salsas to compliment grilled and barbecued vegetables and proteins, making it an accessible flavor for nearly every restaurant.
Drinks and Cocktails
By adding passion fruit flavoring to bar and restaurant drinks, restaurants enhance cocktails, smoothies, sodas, and teas to remind guests of warm, sunny skies. Kitchen staff simply add passion fruit syrup or fresh pulp to existing drinks or use the ingredient to create new cocktails.
Cheesecakes and Desserts
Passion fruit makes a great topping to cheesecakes, ice cream, and milkshakes, as well as a filling for layered cakes, cookies, and other desserts. Similar to citrus, pineapple, and sweet melons, passion fruit pairs well with vanilla, caramel, coconut, raspberries, and even chocolate.
As passion fruit grows in popularity, more customers will be drawn to restaurants that have already incorporated the tropical flavor. Restaurants, bars, pizza places, and food trucks that use Aldelo Express Cloud POS and Masa+ can easily adjust their in-store and online menus to include passion fruit food and drink modifiers and rotate specialty menu items, enhancing their restaurant with limited-time online menu categories.
Learn more by contacting an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 925-621-2410
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