where do cashew nuts come from?

Question

have you ever seen a cashew nut in a shell? me neither, looking for answers please help

Answer 1

Cashews are grown on a cashew tree .. The cashew flower produces a cashew (fruit/seed) which then develops a swelling called a pseudofruit (the marañón). The cashew does have a very hard resinous shell, but this is removed in processing to liberate 'cashew shell liquid', which is why the shell is never seen. The cashew shell liquid is extremely versatile and can only be obtained by removing the shell.
You can eat both parts of the fruit - the marañón and the cashew kernel.
Down here in Australia, we don't call them 'Cashew nuts', they're just 'Cashews', probably from their lack of hard shell in commercial arenas.
There's a good picture of the drupe and pseudofruit on wikipedia...
The info is a little staggered and sketchy, but the images are good.

Answer 2

Cashews Come From A Fruit

Answer 3

Its a tree in which cashew apple which is encased in a shell and then it grow in a form of cashew nuts.

Answer 4

I love cashew nuts.

Answer 5

I was actually in Central America last year and they have this sour fruit lat looks like a Pepper, the stem of it its a cashew nut!! weird, lol Here's a pic,,, it this is not a cashew, i must say, it tasted like it... exactly like it. They called the fruit Marañon

http://www.ecoteach.com/graphics/CashewFruit%20from%20HRMS%20CR046.jpg

Answer 6

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RE:
where do cashew nuts come from?
have you ever seen a cashew nut in a shell? me neither, looking for answers please help

Answer 7

Yea....what they said.
Don't look like cashews to me, though

Answer 8

they come from a fruit called Maranon, (I don't like the fruit but love cashews) the seed grows on the top outside of the fruit, and people toast it.

Answer 9

did you know that cashews come from a fruit cashews cashews fu-fu-fruit did you knoooow that!!??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzKFbUxYJys

Answer 10

from the posterior of cashew fruit