Sweet Tamarind Exporters

Product Description

Tamarind fruit are bean-like shaped pods with a cinnamon brown to clay coloured external appearance. Inside the pods, the fruit's flesh is tender, succulent and green with a highly acidic flavour when young. Its underdeveloped seeds are soft and white. As the fruit matures, the pod becomes brittle. The flesh begins to dehydrate to paste form and takes on the cinnamon appearance of the pod while also losing its acidic punch and becoming sweeter. It is at this stage of maturity that it is most often used for culinary purposes. The seeds, too change in both colour and texture, becoming flat, hard and glossy brown.

The tamarind tree is native to tropical Africa. Its growing regions covers nearly the entire tropical belt throughout Asia, Pacific Islands and the Americas. It is cultivated most widely throughout Mexico and Asia.