Tamarind Benefits

Tamarind is a tropical fruit that many of us have never heard of or tasted. This fruit comes in a pod looking like a smooth, pale brown bean and has a sweetly acidic flavor and a sticky paste-like consistency inside when mature. The fruit is also known as Tamarindus indica L and as the “date of India.”

The trees are native to Africa but were transported to India thousands of year ago, possibly as early as 400 B.C. to Egypt. It is noted as one of the most important multipurpose tropical fruit tree species. The tree now …read more