Tamarind is a delicious sweet fruit that has a wide variety of uses and applications both for medicinal and culinary purposes. It is a medium-sized bushy tree with evergreen leaves and fruit that develops in pods characterized by long brown shells. Inside is a sticky fleshy juicy pulp which is the tamarind fruit. This is where the nutrition and taste reside! It is both sweet and sour in taste and people tend to either immediately like it or have a natural disposition against it!