Maybe passion fruit peeled into salad (7)
I believe the answer is:
emotion
'maybe passion' is the definition.
(passion is an emotion)
'fruit peeled into salad' is the wordplay.
'fruit' becomes 'lemon' (lemon is a kind of fruit).
'peeled' says to take the centre.
'salad' indicates an anagram (salad can refer to a mixture).
The middle of 'lemon' is 'emo'.
'into' is an anagram of 'tion'.
'emo'+'tion'='EMOTION'
(Other definitions for emotion that I've seen before include "Feeling like love or fear" , "E.g. fear, hate etc." , "Anger, perhaps" , "Feeling like love or hate" , "Feeling of joy, love, hate etc" .)