

Then I added a couple of tea flowers to my pig cup 🥹 and strained the warm liquid in. I boiled the cashew fruit with cinnamon and cane sugar for an hour and a half until the cashew seeds got darker and puffed up. (A cashew seed is the cashew nut still inside the kernel.). It’s really cold in Florida so my plans changed from making a cold drink to doing a warm one. Perfectly edible, the apple is rich in vitamin C, containing around 5 times more than an.
#Apple inside cashew plant skin
The tree is in the same family as poison ivy! The raw seeds will give you similar skin reactions as touching poison ivy or sumac if not cooked properly. Once you get past the bitter/ sour part the taste is really delicious. The seed which is also the cashew grows on the outside of the fruit! The inside is completely edible and it has an astringent taste with hints of apricot and peaches. Burning of the debris and forest wastes inside the pits before planting is. This fruit is so incredible 🍎 I feel like I will never get over how cashews grow. The cashew apple is light reddish to yellow fruit, whose pulp can be.

The leathery leaves are spirally arranged and elliptical in shape. The cashew tree ( Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree native to South America in the genus Anacardium that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple accessory fruit. The part that we thought was cashew nut is actually a seed inside the pit of the fruit which grows from the bottom of the apple. The cashew apple is a light reddish to yellow fruit, whose pulp and juice can be processed into a sweet, astringent fruit drink or fermented and distilled. The plant may grow to 12 metres (40 feet) in height where the soil is fertile and the humidity high. Instead, its located in the drupe, a small kidney-shaped hard shell. The cashew apple does not grow from the ovary tissue like other fruits. Its classified as a fruit, though the nut itself isnt actually found in the cashew apple. Today I got to try another of my dream fruits- even though I got it frozen I’m so excited to show y’all cashew apples. The cashew tree has cashew apple which isn’t really a fruit at all but is actually the swollen end of the stem just above the cashew nut.
