Tamarind

陆承志

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Tamarind。
Tamarind is the seed pods from the tamarind tree. It is widely used to provide a sweet and tart flour to soury meat and vegetable dishes and in drinks and deserts in South Asia. India is the top producer, growing tamarind in orchard-like plantations for domestic use and export.


Sweet and sour
Tamarind is the brown, tart flesh from the pods of atreein the pea and bean family. The flesh surrounds the brown shiny seeds within the sausage-shaped pod. Pods are harvested at different stages of maturity according to their intended use.


Ice cream
Extracts from tamarind seeds are used as a stabilising agent in someice creams.




Immune booster
Tamarind pods containcompoundswhich he recently been found to increase people's resistance to infections.


Attractive artwork
In Orissa, India, a gum is prepared from ground tamarind seeds and spread onto cloth to prepare a base for makingtraditional folk paintings. Tamarind plants are also used to make dyes, glue, polish carvings and buildings.




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Tamarind is also known by thename'Indian date' because if its resemblance to brown and sticky dates.

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