I love cashew nuts, it's one of my favourite healthy snacks, I could eat a whole bag of cashews in just a few minutes, the other day I was looking up the origins of the cashew nut and I was quite surprised to see that the cashew nut comes from a fruit called the cashew apple
The cashew apple grows on the cashew tree in the northeastern part of brazil, the fruit itself is said to be very sweet, but the skin covering the fruit is also very delicate which makes it not an easy one to transport over long distances, in Brazil these apples are used to make a popular refreshing juice drink.
Now can you imagine from that one bag of cashews you ate each single nut was the product of a single fruit? how many fruits did it take to fill up that bag of nuts? I'm adding a few more interesting photo's around the cashew fruit and cashew nut in case you were as surprised as I was to learn this. Enjoy
Hope you've found a new appreciation for these tasty little nuts.
