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Amla Powder – 100% Natural Gooseberry | PureRoots

Amla Powder – 100% Natural Gooseberry | PureRoots

₨ 549

Amla is dried whole, seed removed, and reduced to a fine pale-green powder in a temperature-controlled chamber.
Drying by machine rather than in the sun protects the fruit’s natural vitamin C and keeps every batch tasting the same.
Half a teaspoon in warm water each morning is the usual way to take it.
It also goes into hair masks with curd, and into chutneys and pickles where you want a clean sourness instead of added acid.
PureRoots amla powder is whole Indian gooseberry and nothing else — fruit washed, deseeded, dried and milled to a fine pale-green powder. No sweetener to soften the sourness, no starch to bulk it out, no preservative. The ingredients panel reads amla, and that is the whole line.
Fresh amla arrives for a few weeks a year and turns woody within days of picking. Dried and milled, the same fruit sits in your kitchen all twelve months, measurable by the spoon, without the stone or the fibre to work around.

Machine-dried, not sun-dried

Amla is the product where drying method matters most. Its vitamin C is fragile: heat above a certain point and long exposure to light both destroy it, which is why sun-dried amla powder can be nutritionally close to sawdust while still looking the part.
Ours dries in a closed chamber at controlled low heat, in the dark, in hours rather than days. The powder stays pale green instead of going grey-brown, the sourness stays sharp rather than flat, and nothing settles on it while it dries.

How to use amla powder

  • In warm water. Half a teaspoon first thing, stirred well. Honey takes the edge off if the sourness is too much at first.
  • As a hair mask. Mixed to a paste with curd or water, left on for thirty minutes. The traditional use, and still the most common one.
  • In chutneys and pickles. A clean sourness where you would otherwise reach for tamarind or lime.
  • In juices and smoothies. A quarter teaspoon is plenty — it is assertive and will dominate a mild drink.

Taste and texture

Sharply sour with a dry, astringent finish that catches the back of the throat — that pucker is the fruit, not a fault. Milled fine enough to disperse in water, though a little will settle if you leave the glass standing. Stir and drink.

Ingredients and storage

  • Ingredients: 100% dried amla.
  • Storage: Cool, dry, out of direct light. Amla darkens with light exposure — an opaque jar is better than a clear one. Dry spoon only.
  • Best before: 12 months from packing.

FAQs

Why is the colour green and not brown?
Because it was dried in the dark at low heat. Brown amla powder has usually been sun-dried or over-heated, which costs it both colour and vitamin C.
Is it very sour?
Yes. Start with a quarter teaspoon and build up. Nothing has been added to mask it.
Can I use it on hair and take it internally?
Same pouch, both uses. It is food-grade throughout, so nothing in it is unsuitable for either.
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Pack Size

100 g
Amla Powder – 100% Natural Gooseberry | PureRoots
Amla Powder – 100% Natural Gooseberry | PureRoots
₨ 549