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Kokam
is an Indian spice speciality, with an agreeable flavour and sweet,
acidic taste. By both culinary and medical standards, kokam ranks
high. Indian kokam is a versatile spice. Its oils, seeds, fruits,
bark and the young leaves are all of extensive culinary and therapeutic
value. The kokam fruit is cholagogue, cooling, demulcent, emollient
and antiseptic. The bark and young leaves are astringent.The oil
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emollient
and soothing. Among the major uses of kokam are, as a garnish
for curries and in the preparation of cooling syrups. In India,
kokam is grown plentifully in the Konkan, Malabar and Kanara regions
of Western India which combine the advantages of good sunshine,
adequate rainfall and rich soil. Exported mainly in the forms of
fruits, oil (kokam butter) and syrup, Indian kokam is already popular
in several countries like USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong
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