Cashewnut

The Cashewnut

Cashew or cashew is the fruit of the cashew tree (Anacardium Occidentale), a tree native to tropical America. It is a drupe whose shell contains a caustic and allergenic resin, with an edible almond inside which, after having undergone a series of drying, heating, shelling and roasting operations, acquires all its taste qualities. It can then be eaten as is or used in cooking (like peanuts). In Europe, it is mainly sold grilled and salted, as an appetizer as an aperitif.

It develops for the attention of a juicy and edible peduncle which is a false fruit called cashew apple (or apple-cashew in the French overseas departments and regions) which is now used to make a juice which after filtration and pasteurization is sold in bottles.
In the world market for nuts (unshelled), cashew nuts topped the list in tonnage with 4,087,563 tonnes in 2016, ahead of the town of almonds and walnuts, in contrast in production value (4 287 966 1000 int. $), It is behind the almond and the walnut.
Note that as is generally the case for the terms designating nuts, the terms cashew and cashew, can follow the designated context either:
1) the whole cashew fruit,
or 2) the seed (or almond) once rid of its toxic shell.