🎯 Objective

To produce clean, tasty, safe, and market-ready passion fruit juice for sale in homes, estates, kiosks, and shops.

🧰 REQUIRED EQUIPMENT

• Clean knives
• Spoons
• Buckets/basins (food-grade)
• Blender or manual pulper
• Fine sieve or muslin cloth
• Cooking pot (if pasteurizing)
• Measuring jug
• Bottles (plastic or glass)
• Labels

🧪 INGREDIENTS (STANDARD BATCH)

For ~10 litres of juice:

• 3–4 kg ripe passion fruits
• 6–8 litres clean water
• 1–2 kg sugar (adjust to taste)
• Preservative (optional, e.g. sodium benzoate)

🧼 STEP 1: HYGIENE & PREPARATION

• Wash hands thoroughly
• Clean all equipment
• Use clean, safe water
• Work in a clean environment

👉 This step determines product quality and shelf life

🍊 STEP 2: SORTING & WASHING

• Select ripe, healthy fruits
• Remove rotten or damaged ones
• Wash fruits thoroughly with clean water

🔪 STEP 3: CUTTING & PULP EXTRACTION

• Cut fruits into halves
• Scoop out pulp using a spoon
• Collect pulp in a clean container

👉 Avoid mixing with dirt or peel debris

⚙️ STEP 4: DILUTION & BLENDING

• Add water to pulp (ratio ~1:2 or 1:3)
• Lightly blend or stir

⚠️ Do NOT overblend → seeds break → bitter taste

🧺 STEP 5: SIEVING

• Use sieve or muslin cloth
• Separate juice from seeds

👉 Press gently to extract maximum juice

🍬 STEP 6: SWEETENING

• Add sugar gradually
• Stir until fully dissolved
• Taste and adjust

👉 Optional:

• Add ginger or lemon for flavor

🔥 STEP 7: PASTEURIZATION (RECOMMENDED)

• Heat juice to 70–80°C for 10–15 minutes
• Do NOT boil

👉 Benefits:

• Kills germs
• Extends shelf life

🧴 STEP 8: PRESERVATION (OPTIONAL)

• Add small amount of preservative (as per label instructions)

👉 Skip if:

• Selling fresh daily juice

🧊 STEP 9: COOLING

• Allow juice to cool naturally
• Keep covered to avoid contamination

🧃 STEP 10: BOTTLING

• Use clean, sterilized bottles
• Fill and seal immediately

👉 Label with:

• Product name
• Date of production
• Contacts

❄️ STEP 11: STORAGE

• Refrigerated: 1–2 weeks
• Without fridge: 2–3 days

👉 Always store in a cool, clean place

📦 STEP 12: DISTRIBUTION

Sell to:

• Neighbors
• Shops
• Juice vendors
• Offices

👉 Start small → grow with demand

📊 SIMPLE PRODUCTION FLOW

Wash → Cut → Scoop → Dilute → Sieve → Sweeten → Heat → Cool → Bottle → Sell

💰 COST & PROFIT EXAMPLE (10 LITRES)

👉 Selling:

• 20 bottles × 500ml @ KSh 80 = KSh 1,600
• OR premium pricing → KSh 2,000+

👉 Profit grows with:

• Better branding
• Direct customers

⚠️ COMMON MISTAKES

• ❌ Over-blending (bitter juice)
• ❌ Poor hygiene (spoiled juice)
• ❌ Too much water (weak taste)
• ❌ Wrong storage (short shelf life)

🔑 SUCCESS TIPS

• Keep taste consistent
• Maintain cleanliness
• Start with small batches
• Build repeat customers
• Use simple branding (labels)

💡 FINAL WORD

Passion fruit juice is one of the easiest agribusiness value-add products you can start in Kenya.

With:

• Small capital
• Simple tools
• Consistent quality

👉 You can turn your harvest into a daily cash business