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Tamarind makes dishes taste unique with its sweet-tangy flavor. This is because it is full of healthy nutrients. You can eat tamarind raw, as a paste, in concentrated forms, or add it to recipes.

Walk into almost any taqueria and you can get agua de tamarindo, a refreshingly tangy Mexican drink made from tamarind fruit. But tamarind is not just Mexican, and tamarindo is not just a drink.