Amla is one of the three fruits that are contained in Triphala and it is the main ingredient in the nutritive jam Chyavanprash. Amla contains a very high concentration of vitamin C, one of the highest known in the plant kingdom—twenty times that of an orange.1 More importantly, the vitamin C contained in the amla fruit is stabilized by the presence of tannins, which help amla to maintain its vitamin content even through processing