Kokum
Kokam is an Indian versatile spice specialty, with an agreeable flavor and sweet, acidic taste.
Its oils, seeds, fruits, bark and leaves have extensive culinary and therapeutic value. Its fruit is cholagogue, cooling, demulcent, emollient and antiseptic.
Its bark and leaves are astringent and its oil is emollient and soothing. In India, kokam is grown in Konkan, Malabar and Kanara regions of Western India.
It is exported to several countries like USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and Middle East.
