The fruit itself is not too bad as long as you can avoid touching the saps residue on the base of the fruit. We had a cashew tree when I was growing up. We usua

The fruit itself is not too bad as long as you can avoid touching the saps residue on the base of the fruit. We had a cashew tree when I was growing up. We usually eat the fruit as a spicy fruit salad (mixed with other tropical fruits). One day, my dad decided to harvest the dried cashew nuts he's been collecting, cracked them open with a machete. Took a while to crack them all and we did get some tasty nuts, but he didn't wear a glove while doing it so the skin on his palms were peeling. The dried shells basically contains concentrated sap which is really bad to your skin. Several months later we no longer have a cashew tree :)