Turkey berry is known as Sundaikkai n Tamil. Sundaikkai is a common vegetable used in Tamil cultire and is available in all vegetable shops. This sundaikkai is used as a vegetable in daily cooking and is also sun dried soaked in curd or butter milk. This dried turkey berry is used in Vathal Kuzhambhu which is again a Tamil delicacy. It is also known as Vathal kara kuxhambhu. The Sundaikkai vathal is mostly made during the summer months and is tored and used all round the year.