Apparently the fruit part itself tastes like a creamy apple sliced pepper, but it goes off quick and so we never see it in supermarkets. Each one is a single nut. You won’t look at a bag of these guys the same way ever again.
Cashew nuts are fantastic in a fruit salad though… cashews, mango, strawberries, cherries and tart apple slices? With maybe a teensy bit of honey drizzled over? Thatd be delicious.
Well, good news… The amount of fruits we have no name for is insane in tropical regions. There’s trees that just casually make candy pods, like those little jello fruit cups that used to be popular. There’s so many with unique flavors, and even more that are vaguely similar
There’s definitely something that tastes like a creamy apple, there’s too many fruits out there for that not to be a thing. Nature likes to chemically mix and match
Oh and as far as the toxins, you’ll get a straight up chemical burn if you touch the seed pods. Usually they use tools to pull off the shell and roast it, which can lead to a warm raw cashew when you bust it open
You can eat the fruits without that, but you have to be careful to keep out the caustic oils. Cooking it is probably just safer
I love cashews. Eat them by the fistful. I always think about the energy and time to get each one of those nuts to my table, only for me to gobble them down in 3 seconds
Yeah I think of this too. I worry that they’re not really an ecologically sound food source - i think it takes a lot of water to grow a cashew because of the fruit, which is discarded.
I feel like if farmers grew it locally, they would probably be distributing the fruits in their neighbourhood and maybe having roast parties every harvest.
This is a cashew fruit:
Apparently the fruit part itself tastes like a
creamy applesliced pepper, but it goes off quick and so we never see it in supermarkets. Each one is a single nut. You won’t look at a bag of these guys the same way ever again.I love how the bottom looks angry
It is angry.
Angry nut in a big hat.
Angry Bottom sounds like a suburb from The Hobbit, or a byline from my X’s online dating account.
Talk about yourself. *Dances in Brazilian*
The fuit probably could go in a fruit salad. The nut, though, is a nut
Cashew nuts are fantastic in a fruit salad though… cashews, mango, strawberries, cherries and tart apple slices? With maybe a teensy bit of honey drizzled over? Thatd be delicious.
Cashews are definitely S-tier nuts and that dish sounds fantastic, I’d serve it all over a bit of yogurt, damn!
That’s bullshit. Cashews are awesome in fruit salad.
That’s nuts.
https://www.slowfood.com/blog-and-news/cashew-nuts-a-toxic-industry/
I invite down votes. Cashews are delicious, but 9 times out of 10 their source is problematic.
Cashew wine is fantastic.
There’s a what now
…a creamy apple? It’s closer to a bell pepper but more dry IMO
I’ve never tried, so just repeating what Ive heard. Is it just a shell then, no flesh like an apple?
Yeah, I’ve never eaten it raw, but cooked it was an empty shape like a sliced pepper. It was good, but creamy apple is wild as a description
updated my initial post, thanks
Kinda disappointed. I really want to taste a creamy apple now
Also I think you’re not meant to eat it raw becausr of some toxins?
Well, good news… The amount of fruits we have no name for is insane in tropical regions. There’s trees that just casually make candy pods, like those little jello fruit cups that used to be popular. There’s so many with unique flavors, and even more that are vaguely similar
There’s definitely something that tastes like a creamy apple, there’s too many fruits out there for that not to be a thing. Nature likes to chemically mix and match
But I want it nowwwwuh
Here you go, sugar apple meets the description
oh I’ve had custard apple before, and not been totally blown away by it. I forget why. Maybe because it tastes more musty than custardy?
Thanks anyway!
Oh and as far as the toxins, you’ll get a straight up chemical burn if you touch the seed pods. Usually they use tools to pull off the shell and roast it, which can lead to a warm raw cashew when you bust it open
You can eat the fruits without that, but you have to be careful to keep out the caustic oils. Cooking it is probably just safer
I love cashews. Eat them by the fistful. I always think about the energy and time to get each one of those nuts to my table, only for me to gobble them down in 3 seconds
Yeah I think of this too. I worry that they’re not really an ecologically sound food source - i think it takes a lot of water to grow a cashew because of the fruit, which is discarded.
I feel like if farmers grew it locally, they would probably be distributing the fruits in their neighbourhood and maybe having roast parties every harvest.