(Technically, the combined shell and nut are the true fruit, and the cashew apple is a pseudo-fruit, a swollen peduncle/stem for the true fruit.
Apple inside cashew plant free#
It’s best to wear gloves when harvesting the fruit and cutting it free from the nut-shell attached to it, to avoid contacting that poisonous sap. Even though it seems sad to throw that cool home-grown nut away, it’s better than getting a poison ivy-like rash internally, all through your digestive track! (I’m actually not exactly sure what the health consequences are of ingesting cashew sap, but it sounds like it could be pretty dire). So if you grow cashew, you should just eat the fruit part, the cashew apple, and compost the nut. Commercially, prior to cracking the shell, the nuts go through a special roasting process which releases toxic vapors, so the roasting is done with a special chimney to vent of the fumes away from people. It’s so dangerous even to try to extract the nut that the state of Florida document on cashews states unequivocally that the average home owner should NOT attempt to extract cashew nuts from their shell. It is extremely difficult to extract the nut from the shell without contaminating the nut with this toxic sap. The cashew nut is inside a hard shell, and the shell is impregnated with toxic, poison ivy-like sap. Some people are very fond of this fruit, calling it “the next best fruit, after mango.” It’s red or yellow, pear-shaped, about three inches in diameter, and it’s the part that’s most accessible for the home fruit-grower. The sweet fruit is called a cashew apple. The cashew nut, rather than being inside the fruit as you might expect, is inside a hard shell that sticks out from the bottom of the edible fruit. The cashew fruit is a bizarre structure that consists of two different kinds of food: the cashew nut that’s familiar to most Americans, and also a sweet, juicy fruit, called the cashew apple. The first thing to know is that the tree is in the same family as poison ivy, and it has a sap that causes blistering rashes.
If you’re not familiar with it, be advised that the cashew is a strange creature, which is potentially very hazardous. **NOTE: This is a potentially dangerous plant, and great caution is required in working with it.** Propagation: Seed, Cutting, Air-layer, grafting Anacardium occidentale, Cashew Apple The cashew apple is a bizarre structure, with a sweet fruit and sticking out of the bottom of that fruit, a toxic shell that encloses the familiar cashew nut.
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