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One thing that few people seem to know about cashews: the "nut" is actually the seed of a fruit, the cashew apple, and it's delicious. Unfortunately it's extrem

One thing that few people seem to know about cashews: the "nut" is actually the seed of a fruit, the cashew apple, and it's delicious. Unfortunately it's extremely perishable and can only be found near places where cashews grow. I grew up in northern Brazil and would get them from straight from the trees when the season came. Here's what it looks like: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Cashew_apples.jpg/1200px-Cashew_apples.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Ca... I sometimes wonder how much it'd cost to get a couple of fresh cashew fruits shipped by plane to San Francisco. It'd be willing to pay up to $100 for this treat - anyone knows if this is something easily done? Or would it be too complicated to get fresh and extremely perishable produce past customs?

meric 9y ago
You could get it sent frozen like fish?
nwatson 9y ago
In first grade I'd sneak out of school in Rio de Janeiro to buy a hot dog and "suco de cajú" (watered-down and sweetened cashew-fruit juice), my favorite drink. This lasted a few weeks till the nuns busted me, and I'd had no concept of the rule "you can't leave campus" ... they had to explain it to me, to my loss. I've never seen cashew fruit here in the U.S., I'd love to have some. I just need to wait till the U.S. health-nutrition-fitness industry gets hold of it. We've already seen peak-quinoa, peak-coconut, peak-avocado-toast. I'm sure cashew fruit will see its day in the U.S.
egghese 9y ago
Goa, a state in India has a popular liquor called Feni which is made from the cashew apple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor). This is a good way to make use of an otherwise perishable fruit.
njarboe 9y ago
All nuts are seeds of fruit. Just not fruit you would want to eat. Check out a walnut, almond or pistachio tree sometime when the fruit is growing. It is pretty cool. A few millimeters of fruit growing around a big nut.

meric 9y ago

You could get it sent frozen like fish?

nwatson 9y ago

In first grade I'd sneak out of school in Rio de Janeiro to buy a hot dog and "suco de cajú" (watered-down and sweetened cashew-fruit juice), my favorite drink. This lasted a few weeks till the nuns busted me, and I'd had no concept of the rule "you can't leave campus" ... they had to explain it to me, to my loss. I've never seen cashew fruit here in the U.S., I'd love to have some. I just need to wait till the U.S. health-nutrition-fitness industry gets hold of it. We've already seen peak-quinoa, peak-coconut, peak-avocado-toast. I'm sure cashew fruit will see its day in the U.S.

egghese 9y ago

Goa, a state in India has a popular liquor called Feni which is made from the cashew apple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor). This is a good way to make use of an otherwise perishable fruit.

njarboe 9y ago

All nuts are seeds of fruit. Just not fruit you would want to eat. Check out a walnut, almond or pistachio tree sometime when the fruit is growing. It is pretty cool. A few millimeters of fruit growing around a big nut.