Trader Joe’s new passion fruit sorbet is EVERYTHING

I have been obsessed with passion fruit since my family and I vacationed in the Dominican Republic when I was 19, where we all tried it for the first time. They had endless passion fruit at the buffet at the resort we stayed at, I probably ate at least 50 whole passion fruit during our stay there.

If you haven’t tried passion fruit, it’s basically fruit caviar, you cut it open and eat the little seeds covered in delicious orange slime with a spoon. It’s very tart, so you’ll generally wanna sprinkle a little sugar on top. It has the most aromatic, archetypal tropical flavor you can imagine.

On that trip my parents became enamored with it as well; after we got back from the trip they began growing passion fruit in our backyard. The kind we had in the DR were the big yellow ones; we grow smaller ones with a purple exterior. They’re just as delicious as the first ones we tried, of course.

2-3 weeks ago Trader Joe’s began selling passion fruit sorbet, and OMG, it is perfection. A lot of passion fruit juices and products can be really overly sweetened, but the sorbet is really nice and tart. Has an amazing, pungent, passion-fruity flavor. It tastes like you might as well be eating frozen passion fruit purée without the seeds and just enough sugar.


Next time I go, I’m getting 3.