![]() Cashew drupes hanging from their accessory fruit. Ever wondered why you don’t buy cashews in their shells? Well. By coming into skin contact with unprocessed cashews, you can get contact dermatitis, which, let me tell you having suffered 15 years of low-level dermatitis, is not a risk you want to take. ![]() ![]() In order to fetch the cashew nut from its drupe, you first need to remove the tough shell, which is full of liquid anacardic acid – toxic, dangerous, and a relative of poison ivy (basically, not as delicious as a plum or cherry). Amazingly, peaches, plums, and cherries are themselves drupes – we just focus our culinary attention on the fruit rather than their seeds. Walnuts, almonds, and pecans are also seeds from drupes. The true fruit is a smaller, green, kidney-shaped fruit called the “drupe”, and each contains a single cashew nut. It might look like the fruit of the tree (and is eaten and juiced as a sweet fruit), but actually it’s a bonus “accessory fruit”: the swollen stem that the true fruit dangles from. Imagine a large, squat, pear-shaped red or yellow courgette this is called the “cashew apple”. ![]() The cashew nut is actually a seed, and grows inside a fruit on a tree – the cashew tree – which is native to South America. If you’ve never thought much about nuts, get ready for your mind to be blown. They’re the most decadent nut – creamy, addictive, great in a sauce – but wait until you hear their origin story.Īll I want to do today is tell you how cashews are grown and harvested, because it’s actually mad. ![]()
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