Amazing Amra: Health Benefits Of Eating Indian Hog Plum

The amra tree’s bark, leaves and dried stem are believed to have healing properties and used in Ayurveda.

Amra or Indian hog plum, Amrataka in Sanskrit, has been around forever, secretly flourishing in our backyards and enhancing our health and meals with its medicinal value and sweet-sour tangy flavour. Every monsoon, the tall amra tree in our backyard would become heavy, its branches hung low, drenched with droplets of rain and loaded with a bounty of nutritious goodness. Plucking the fruit also meant a rain bath, and later, delicious raw amra sliced into slivers, sprinkled with chilli powder and a dash of rock salt to tingle the tongue.