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"Cajus (Cashews) Everthing Around Me"
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A Quick Tip by Sharrie
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May 8, 2011
- by Sharrie
- posted in Love Bites
It's commonly found in Indonesia and they are sold everywhere in the street & markets. I love the roasted ones, especially honey roasted. Yummy!
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I always thought Cashews were a nut. And I’m nuts for ‘em. Apparently, however, they are actually a seed from a fruit — cashew (or Caju) fruit. The delicacy is as popular in Rio as it is in my heart. At all of Rio’s juice stands you can order Caju fruit juice and buy salted cashews from street vendors. A strange looking item, the Caju fruit is so tender that it cannot be exported. Before coming to South America … more
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October 19, 2009
My favorite food in the whole wide world has to be 100% fat.
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I'm a traveler at heart & have been nicknamed Travel Queen by friends & colleagues alike. Traveling has been my life passion for the last decade or so. As we enter a new decade, I'm excited … more
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The cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil. Its English name derives from the Portuguese name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi name, acajú. It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew "nuts" (see below) and cashew apples.
It is a small evergreen tree growing to 10-12m (~32 ft) tall, with a short, often irregularly shaped trunk. The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obovate, 4 to 22 cm long and 2 to 15 cm broad, with a smooth margin. The flowers are produced in a panicle or corymb up to 26 cm long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with five slender, acute petals 7 to 15 mm long.
What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as "marañón", it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 5–11 cm long. It is edible, and has a strong "sweet" smell and a sweet taste. The pulp of the cashew apple is very juicy, but the skin is fragile, making it unsuitable for transport.
The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. The drupe develops first on the tree, and then the peduncle expands into the ...First to Review
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