The passion fruit has origin in tropical countries of America, and Brazil is its greatest producer and consumer, exporting the fruit mainly to United Kingdom, France, Belgium, German and the Netherlands (EMBRAPA, 2010). The cultivation of yellow passion fruit (Passiflora edulis var. flavicarpa Deg., Passifloraceae) has been preferred for industrial juice production that generates large quantities of by-product composed by seeds and shells representing more than half of the total fruit weight