Sour horn has the functions of quenching thirst and eliminating heat, eliminating food, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight. It is used to quench thirst, eliminate heat, cool and refreshing, and eliminate food and stagnation. It is often used in the treatment of heat stroke, indigestion, food accumulation, abdominal pain, chronic gastritis, constipation, hypertension and iron deficiency heart disease.

It is sweet, pungent, acidic and cool in nature, and has the function of removing heat and relieving heatstroke, eliminating food accumulation and refreshing the brain. It can cure slow diarrhea, vomiting in pregnancy, constipation, pediatric chancre, hypertension and many other diseases. In folk medicine, tamarind has the function of laxative and antipyretic. The pulp provides fiber, which is a good natural laxative for recovering patients; and the fruit acids it contains have antipyretic properties.

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Fruit pulp in addition to direct raw food, but also can be processed to produce nutrient-rich, special flavor, sweet and sour high-level beverages and food, such as fruit juice, jelly, fructose, fruit sauce and juice concentrate, fruit powder, dried fruit and so on. Concentrated juice for the preparation of the production of fruit juice, etc., fruit powder for the production of polysaccharide food, and seed endosperm processing made of polysaccharide products.

The antioxidant active ingredients extracted and isolated from the seed coat of Cape Verde are compounds such as epicatechin, and the extracted antioxidant active ingredients have high stability and salt tolerance, and have shown strong antioxidant properties in lard and vegetable oils, and are a safe, low-cost natural antioxidant, which can be widely used in the processing of food, edible oils and meats.

Sour horn seed coat is treated with hot water or hot alkali to remove the bitter flavonoids, and then extracted with alkali and alcohol to obtain a good brown non-toxic food additive coloring. Domestic scholars, such as Zhang Jingrong, studied the process of sour horn seed coat pigment extraction and pigment products, the prepared sour horn seed coat pigment is reddish brown.

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