Thai Tamarind Candy - 3.5 oz box

by Importfood

Product Features

• Sour, pure natural tamarind without any preservatives or artificial ingredients
• Covered in a mix of sugar and salt (commonly found in Thailand the same chile/sugar/salt mix offered with sliced mango)
• Ingredients are tamarind, sugar, salt
• Product of Thailand

Product Description

If you have an acquired taste for tamarind, this is a great snack. Tamarind candy tends to lose flavor and freshness within a few months after shipment, and this is a new arrival so buy now--quality is great.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000F6QHRE
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,761 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tamarind balls are great but this product, from Importfood, are HORRIBLE!!!, September 27, 2010

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wiggle worm mama (Japan) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Thai Tamarind Candy - 3.5 oz box (Misc.)

I LOVE tamarind balls, sweet and tart like other's have described. HOWEVER DO NOT GET THESE FROM IMPORTFOODS. I wouldn't get these type at all no matter what company. Importfoods is bad because they did not bother to return my emails until I was forced to leave them a bad review on Amazon. And even then they ignored my request for a partial refund. I had FOOLISHLY decided to order this product in bulk and had paid them a lot of money.

I did this because I had tried so many brands of tamarind balls and loved them all. Some more than others but all that I tried were good.

These were the sad exception. They tasted EXTREMELY stale and salty, YUCK! The ones that Importfoods sent were covered in dust. So I'm sure they were stale. But the seller is only part of the problem. This BRAND really is inferior. It's full of stale sugar and salt and quite gritty. Barely any tamarind at all. So no wonder it tasted gritty, stale, with barely any fruit.

It also had a weird burnt/molasses- like aftertaste. More just burnt than molasses.

I'm leaving this review because there were no negative reviews,to warn me when I purchased these. Buyer Beware!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Candy for thee, not for me., May 29, 2011

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Jeffrey - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thai Tamarind Candy - 3.5 oz box (Misc.)

I had purchased tamarind candy several years ago. It was sweet tasting. This product is salty and spicy. When I tried to get a refund from the company that I bought this from, I was only offered 50% of my money back. This product has chili powder in it.

I would not have bought it had I had known that.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grew up on this stuff., October 30, 2007

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Violet Black "Violet Black" (Nibelheim...) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thai Tamarind Candy - 3.5 oz box (Misc.)

I love this stuff! Sweet at first, then sour. You have to like sour stuff. This is a dried fruit coated in sugar. It's naturally tart and delicious.