Ever wondered why you don’t buy cashews in their shells? Well.
#CASHEW PLANT POISON SKIN#
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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