Sweet tamarind offers health benefits including improving digestive and heart health, boosting the immune system, helping to manage blood sugar and providing essential nutrients.

It is rich in antioxidants, fibre, magnesium, and potassium, with compounds that can help lower cholesterol and blood pressure.

Culinary suggestions...

To eat sweet tamarind, break the brittle outer shell of the pod, peel away the fibrous veins, and then suck the sticky, date-like pulp directly from around the hard seeds. The inedible seeds should be thrown away.