-Hydroxycitric acid (HCA) is an active ingredient extracted from the rind of the Indian fruit Garcinia cambogia.
For instance, for most users, a search for "chikoo" would show links about and photos of an Indian fruit.
They can be found basking in the JungleWorld exhibit, along with white-cheeked gibbons, painted storks, and Indian fruit bats.
The Indian fruit used to be left to rot on the tree, but has become a fashionable meat substitute.
Mamta of Mamta's Kitchen makes this lovely Indian fruit chaat - a fruit salad sprinkled with zesty mix of fragrant spices.
Add the country's landlocked geography and Afghan agriculture remains perennially uncompetitive.Mannish Gaba, an Indian fruit importer, complains that Afghan pomegranate farmers have only wooden boxes in which to pack their produce.
I learn this and many other mango-hunting tips at the stall of Vilas Dhoble, who, like most Indian fruit-sellers, stacks his mangoes with almost mathematical neatness — mangoes lend themselves to a satisfying pattern of tessellating diagonal rows.
Now is peak season for Mexican mangoes, which provide 60percentt of the United States supply, and typically are inexpensive, 50 cents a pound wholesale — about a tenth what the Indian fruit might cost.
Okra, quickly sautéed in a thick mixture of tomatoes, onion, garlic and kokum (a sour Indian fruit), has an unusual silken quality, while the dosai arrive looking like lacy tents: peek underneath and you find a heap of potatoes spiked with cilantro.
