Tara Pods

Vegetable-tanning materials in commercial quantities come from many different countries. Quebracho is a principal tanning material from South America. Wattie or Mimosa is suppHed from several African sources. India and other Asian countries supply a variety of materials including Myrabolans, Gall Nuts, and Tara Pods (3). 

Examples of tannin-containing materials are tea leaves, tara pods, Chinese nut galls, divi divi pods, sumac leaves and Aleppo galls. 

The tannin or tannic acid employed can be any hydrolyzable tannin such as that obtained by extraction thereof from such tannin-containing materials as tara pods, Chinese nut galls, Aleppo galls, sumac-leaves, etc. Taratannin (i.e., tannin obtained by extraction from tara pods) is preferred. 

The vegetable tannins can be divided into two main classes, i.e. hydrolysable and condensed. The hydrolysable tannins are obtained commercially from, for example, sumac leaves, tara pods, myrabolam fruits, Turkish or Chinese galls or oak bark. Examples of condensed tannins are those from quebracho wood, mimosa bark and gambier leaves and twigs. 

Duke J. A. 1981. Caesalpinia spinosa. In Handbook of Legumes of World Economic Importance. Plenum Press, New York. pp. 32-33. Rogers J. S., Beebe C. W. 1941. Leaching and tanning experiments with Tara pods./. Am. Leather Chem. Ass., 36, 525-539. 

Seed pods Guar/locust bean/tara gum... 

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