The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Nuts can be sold raw or processed, roasted or fried, salted or not. As it is a product of plant origin, the amount of cholesterol is practically non-existent. Consequently, it must be obtained through dietary intake. Linolenic acid, also known as omega 6, is an essential fatty acid that the human body does not produce. ![]() ![]() The cashew nut has high oleic and linoleic acid levels, similar to olive oil. The nut is made up of two parts: the husk and the seed, which is the edible part and represents only 30% of the kernel. This fleshy and juicy hypertrophied peduncle, which represents almost 90% of the set, constitutes the pulp that belongs to the group of tropical fruits, a rich source of vitamin C that can be consumed naturally or used for juices, sweets, jellies, etc. The red and yellowish pulp, which we know as cashew, is a peduncle, a type of stem that precedes the flower or fruit. The real fruit is the cashew nut.īotanically speaking, this is because fruit is a structure created from the flower’s ovary in this case, the nut originated from the ovary. Please help support important botanical research such as this that is integral to the mission of The New York Botanical Garden.The cashew you usually eat is not a fruit. The cashew genus, Anacardium, was originally described by Linnaeus and includes 11 species native to South and Central America. Scott Mori in the early 1980s resulted in the publication of a monograph, The Cashew and Its Relatives (Anacardium: Anacardiaceae), published by NYBG Press. My apprenticeship with Garden senior curator Dr. The “apple” attracts dispersers such as fruit bats, coatis (relatives of raccoons), monkeys, lizards, and various fruit-eating birds who discard the poisonous fruit and consume the cashew apple. Pell, BBG.) The cashew apple can be candied or its juice fermented to make wine or spirits, or it can be used as an ice cream flavoring. (Above is a photo of an immature cashew fruit and hypocarp developing on a tree, taken by Susan K. The cashew apple is a pear-shaped juicy structure that subtends the fruit and is actually the swollen flower/fruit stalk (pedicel) called a hypocarp. Large-scale commercial cashew production is done in Brazil, tropical Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. Cashews are also used to make cashew butter, or as an ingredient in cakes, cookies, and candies. Brake linings of cars and particleboard are two products partially derived from cashew nutshell chemicals. This resin is chemically similar to that found in poison ivy ( Toxicodendron radicans), to which the cashew is closely related they are both members of the same family ( Anacardiaceae) along with other commercial crops, including pistachio, pink peppercorn, and mango.Ĭashew nuts are roasted or eaten raw after careful separation from the poisonous shell (fruit) chemicals in the nutshell liquid are extracted to produce adhesives, lubricants, solvents, plastics, and antimicrobials. The seed is enclosed in a brown to gray fruit, often called the cashew nutshell, which contains a dermatitis-causing poisonous resin. The majority of people who live in the tropics use the cashew tree primarily for its cashew apple rather than for the seed (which you know as the cashew nut). Today cashew is cultivated throughout the lowland tropics of the world. Portuguese colonists introduced the cashew from Brazil to their colonies in India and Africa in the late 1500s. Wild cashew trees occur in the savannas and some coastal forests in northern South America, Brazil, and adjacent Bolivia and Paraguay. The cashew tree ( Anacardium occidentale), a native of Brazil, is the source of cashew nuts and the cashew apple. He studies the cashew family (Anacardiaceae ) worldwide. John Mitchell is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Systematic Botany at The New York Botanical Garden, where he also chairs the Library Committee. Posted in Exhibitions, Science, The Edible Garden on August 25 2009, by Plant Talk ![]() Cashew Tree: Source for Nuts, “Apples,” Even Brake Linings
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