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Brazil is the major world producer and consumer of yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims), with a production of 703,489 metric tons in 2016. The northeast region of Brazil is the major producer, covering around 70% of the crop (Onstituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, 2017). The industrialization of passion fruit to obtain pulp generates around 54 thousand tons of waste per year in Colombia, such as seeds and rinds (López-Vargas et al., 2013). On Brazil, approximately 40% of the production is processed by juice industries (Pimentel et al., 2009). The amount of rind can reach 50.7% of the mass of ripe fruit, or 79.2% of the green fruit (Dliveira & Resende, 2012).