Why are Cashews Not Sold to Consumers in Their Shells? 

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Am a cashew farmer from Ghana thanks for this piece.

I visited a cashew processing facility in Malawi some years back. I was not allowed to take photos or film. The workers wrapped their hands in plastic bags and used old nails to peel the cashews. Most of the worker's fingers were eaten away by the oils after years of peeling them. They all sat on the floor singing together while they worked.

I will never complain about the price again. Great information!

I've always wondered how we started eating some of the foods we eat, especially when it comes from some hard to process food. Some guy once looked at an inedible or poisonous thing and thought, "how can I eat this?"

In Puerto Rico, as a teen, I ate this all the time! My friends and I used to pick this fruit straight out from the tree. In P.R the fruit's called "Pajuil", Pajuiles in plural. We would make a fire and toss the seeds, AKA cashews into the flame, to roast them. Then we'd crack them open and eat the cashew... never caught any dangerous rash. btw, I only found out these were cashews in my adult life after trying to find the fruit here in NY. 😂 The Pajuil is very juicy and sweet, but it prunes and dries up your lips, while you're eating it and it will stain your clothing if you let it drip on it. This video really took me back to my youth. 👍🏻

A friend gave me the whole cashew fruit imported from El Salvador, and I made the mistake of biting the nut that grows on the outside to get it out. The juice in the inside splatter out and burned my lip, and the burned lip last me for about 3 weeks. It was a good thing that it did not splatter in my eye. I did not know then, much about that plant.

We have one growing in our backyard. It smells good when it bears fruit. The cashew apple is indeed very delicate. It starts out green then turns mostly bright yellow and slightly reddish when it ripens. The seed grows ahead of the fruit. It's the only thing I know that has a seed growing outside of it's fruit. It's slightly oily to the touch. Bees abound around the fruit bunch. Cashew apple is sweet and slightly tarty. It can be dipped in either salt, or vinegar, or soy sauce to remove the tarty aftertaste When consumed and is not ripe enough you will not appreciate the taste. The fruit is actually more enjoyable than the nut. The tree grows mostly in the tropics.

On this episode of why the fuck is this in my recommended...

Well, this has given me a whole new appreciation for cashew nuts. Next time i buy cashews i'm gonna savour every single bit of it. No wonder they're so expensive!

Both of its fruit and seed are can be eat. I eaten that fruit often here in Central Java. It is tasty, just choose the old fruit.

Woah... short video... I clicked on it expecting it to be the usual historical and current scenario of cashew, and what not. But I liked this one.

Soooo, cashews aren't really a nut...and peanuts aren't really a nut? So my two favorite nuts aren't nuts. Well crap.

Reason I liked this video: It's 2 minutes long. Too many people waffle on RU-vid.

Great info on cashews, I did wonder why they are not sold in shell. They are so tasty.

I remembered collecting cashews and roasting the seeds as well as making wine 7 years ago. The fruit is very sweet and juicy.

My grandmother in Panama use to roast Cashews for us when I was a kid. She had 3 or 4 trees in front of her house. She also made a drink from the fruit.

I had never even contemplated cashews having a shell!

Wow no wonder they’re a more expensive nut but so sad that labor work has to be done by hand with less safety equipment uuuuu

The bonus fact is that in Goa ,India, which is cashew capital they make an alcoholic drink from the fermented fruit which is so poignant and strong...its called Feni

i've learned something. thx

and to think we buy a bag of cashew nuts and don't appriciate the fact every single nut has been hand picked,and that is just one single bag think of the millions of bags they sell around the world that's a lot of nuts and fruit :/

nice; known this for years now as i’m from a part of the world where it’s pretty common but as you mentioned it’s a fruit that grows in certain areas. one thing i’d really like to know is why soursop is so hard to find and the properties it has. nice series, keep on!

I keep thinking - what are you talking about? I see them with the shells all the time and shell them myself. Then it hit me, I was picturing pistachios the entire video. Lol

Oh so that's why those things are so damn expensive

I've learned more in this 2 minute video than i have in a whole semester of school

Used to eat the fruit right off the tree in Ivory Coast where they grew at my boarding school but did not the raw cashews. The fruit has a sweet, tangy, somewhat pungent taste and leaves a filmy paste in the top of your mouth similar to the film you get from eating a pear. Very juicy fruit and is the texture and consistency of pear.

I was in Sao Paulo in 2000. Outside of an orange processing facility were cashew trees. I picked one and peel the raw nut open. I then found out the hard way in the following days how poisonous they are. I broke out sporadically head to to toe in blisters. It took weeks to recover.

Cashew juice is very popular in Brazil.

wow, the channel just blew up. Hopefully that keeps up, one of the few channels with this sort of random trivia format that actually does research and doesn't have awful unfunny jokes every ten seconds. I've been subbed for a long time so it's good to see this.

This video took me back to my childhood... Me and my elder brother used to eat riped cashew apples plucked out from the trees of our garden.... I really miss those days.

AWESOME STUFF Thanks so much! LOVE THIS CHANNEL!

At first the channel looks like another clickbaiter, but actually it's really informative and is well researched. I love you dudes, don't ever stop.

I remember as boy eating the fruit which has an effect on your lip of "puckering". As a boy I did not know that the seed was a succulent nut.

Interesting as always! Really like the short video!

WOW, I never even thought about why this was. Fantastic video. Very informative!

I'd love to try a cashew apple some day

ok ok.. interesting information.. but it only makes me wonder.. who first decided that it'd be a smart idea to pick the tag-nut of a bum-shaped fruit and eat it? if it were poisonous, and fatal to consume, which manic Jonny figured it out that you must first roast the butt nut before ingesting it? Did the shit-shew miraculously fall from a bum-fruit directly into a scorching hot fire, lightly toasting it, before ricocheting​ off a piece of firewood, flying directly into the mouth of a hunter-gatherer nestled around the cosey campfire on a cold winters day? Did the fellow hunter-gathers, having witnessed this uncanny occurance first hand first applaud in genuine amazement, (thus, inventing applause) before asking for a thumbs up (thus inventing the thumbs up) to determine what the toasty and moreish flavour of the newly discovered hangle-dangle fruit scored out of 10? To me, this is about as stupid as roasting and eating the haemorrhoid addled kidney stones of a puffer fish because "roasting them brings out a succulent fishy flavour." but ehh.. cashews are fucken dope. especially salted ones. I'm glad weird shit like this became food. I wonder what else we ain't eating or utilising as medicine on this Earth that we could...

Back in the 50s in Honduras they sold the whole fruit with i did not like but collected the seeds and toasted , never heard of such a poison !

I had a cashew plant once back in high school and my mom used to make a jam with the fruit. I need to plant another tree and ask her how to make it...I really liked that jam.

I'm eating cashews while watching this video

That explains a lot. And they say processed food is bad for people.

Love your videos Simon. This one was highly interested thank you

Wow, I never really thought about that before. Thanks for the info!

I want a cashew apple.

My brother and i ate the fruits (not the nuts) all the time when we were little, because we have the plants around our house.. it was kinda yummy, but makes your tongue sticky and uncomfortable.. but nothing serious.. no diarrhea or any other sign of food poisoning 😅

Growing up in Trinidad/Tobago, one of the houses had a couple cashew trees. The cashew apple, we ate right off the tree. Had a little zing to them at first, but so sweet.

"Cashews everything around me get the money dolla dolla bill ya"

D-D-D-Did you know that cashews come from a fruit?

I grew up roasting and shelling cashews. in my country regular ppl roast and sell them. also the cashew meat ( fruit is edible, used to makes juice etc or just eat as is

I like the variety of flavored cashews when I went to Thailand. Some were hot but a lot were just full of flavor from a mix of spices. Cashews are by far my favorite nut.

I was born in El Salvador 🇸🇻 a little country in Central America where this fruit is very popular! We eat the fruit and love every bit of it, the seed, “nut” is cooked on an open fire and it does produce an oily substance as it roasts. Oh! But when it’s fully roasted it is so delicious & addicting you can easily consume a pound in one sitting 😋

I wish I knew this earlier, I tried the fruit today. I tasted good. Extremely juicy too. Then I thought it would be a good idea to bite the seed. I was surprised that the outside didn't crack. Instead, it released the oil he was talking about. My tongue is still burning as I type this.

I never knew I wanted to know this.

We had a cashew tree outside our building in Panama, it was really neat to,watch them grow. And as you said the fruit were really good.

Wow whenever I ate cashews I felt nauseous and if I see them in the store my stomach turns. I wonder if I’m just super sensitive to them even though they’ve been roasted anyway. I’m glad I saw this interesting and to the point video.

I grew up in Nicaragua, my mother used to bring fresh marañones from the market, she would roast them up and we would the seed (cashew) it was one of the most delicious things I had ever tried. One time I bit into the raw seed and I remember it felt like my whole face and chest was on fire, it's not something that happens gradually, the burn ( if you can even call it that ) happened immediately, it was like a mixture of burn and sting and itch, I remember trying to scrape my tongue off with my nails lol all it took was me sinking my teeth into the seed to regret my entire existence 😬

The fruit part of the cashew tastes AMAZING!!! Its got a bubble gum like texture and it tastes amazing!

Love the channel. It gives great food for thought.

I know this will be not really of importance to many but the knowledge is needed. I am a formally trained Patisserie/Baker from Le Cordon Bleu, however I come to a few issues when I am asked one question. Why can you not substitute all butter for Shortining. I know the answer but convincing a home Baker of such. Took forever to explain to my kids, and husband why we don't do that.

I've literally never thought about this before. Thank you

now I know, I don't eat cashews anymore as I have a small reaction.

Very informative . you have great vids

This guy looks like a combination of Johnny Sins and Michael from Vsauce

I've always loved cashews. There's one small mistake here though; the cashew tree's skin-irritant properties come from anacardic acid, not urushiol. The two resinous compounds are very similar chemically though. I'd love to try the "cashew apple" fruit. I'll have to go to Brazil someday and get a taste!

In Vietnam, my family had a cashew farm. We sell cashews for a living. I don't think people here in America know what the fruit looks like until now. heheh

Thank you for focusing on cashew.... I know how it feels... And the burn like mark we get when we remove the outer layer and take out the nut for roasting for further year consumption..... Great job

It's impressive how humans figured out cashews were edible in the first place. You'd think between getting poison ivy trying to get the nut out of the shell and destroying your innards eating the raw nut, people would be like "nope, can't eat that, it's poisonous."

I only recently found your channel but your videos are amazing. It's a real plaisure to gain knowledge about interesting facts, fast, but in a complete way. Keep it up

Indeed, the cashew FRUIT is very tasty... like a mango/peach mix. It makes for sloppy eating, and juice from the fruit stains clothing. I get jellies & ice cream of it when travelling in Latin America. Very frustrating that it cannot be found in the USA.

The cashew fruits is very good to the salads. As a kid, i remember roasting the nuts but if it is not well cook, it gives you itchiness to the mouth

Oh! I’m actually munching cashew when this appeared in my suggested videos. Hahaha

I knew cashews were slightly to moderately toxic when raw and that their shell casings also contained this toxin, but I wasn't aware that you could actually eat cashew fruit or that they were called cashew apples. Very interesting. Now I want to taste one.

I love cashews. Here is a show tip: What percentage of crude oil goes into making fuel, from lowly bunker fuel to high octane motor fuels. verses other products such as LPG/Propane, Plastics asphalt and the like... don't forget the aromatics that come off the top of the stack. Are there any consumable petrochemicals like Petroleum jelly? (yes some places use it to fry foods in) ACK

Finally got that cleared up! Thanks!

Glad I found your new channel here. I don't know what happened to the other, but glad you work on RU-vid. Trusted Source, you know.

I just came to see how Simon would stretch out a video to two minutes when all you needed to say was, "The shells are poisonous."

Not only is the skin fragile, but apparently it ripens so fast it may be unripe in one end and overripe in the other end of the fruit at the same time. It goes from hard and unripe to overripe and dissolving within hours apparently. I tasted Cashew fruit once in The Gambia, and I think it tasted horrible. It was sickeningly sweet, a flavour somewhat similar to overripe tropical fruit of some kind (it may have been slightly overripe actually) but most disturbingly it gave a dry, irritating sensation in my entire mouth similar to chewing grape seeds or very unripe apples. I actually didn't really feel well some time afterwards.so maybe I don't tolerate it very well anyway...

I love cashews more than any other nut! Thanks for the info

The more you learn! I didn't know, but I thank you for the information.

By what justification do hundreds of people "Down Vote" a simple statement of fact? Do they somehow not believe this is were cashews come from?

I like learning stuff. I subscribed.

Very informative. Thanks

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Your content is amazing

No bullshit straight facts, loved it

How very interesting. I was surprised at what they look like on the tree. Then again I never gave it much thought.

Lol I never knew that . Awesome video .

Very interesting, love your channel.

Mind = Blown Had no idea that the best nut was this interesting. Thanks TIFO.

We had a Cashew nut tree in our backyard. We used to have it's fruit which is the outer flesh part of the nut. Delicious. 💕

Very interesting indeed THANKS. 👏👏🖖

Cashew spelled backwards is Wehsac.

in my hometown I eat the cashew fruit everyday

Have great memories of summers in Honduras visiting family and spending all summer eating cashew apples aka marañón, the are delicious, eat them red cause I remember eating them yellow left a very unpleasant rough feeling in your mouth.

Roasting the cashews still in the shell produces an awesome smell. I remember doing that when i was a kid.

why is it that every video that looks good brings me to this channel?

I've roasted cashews as a kid, eaten that fruit part ( It's most times sour af but tastes alright lol) and bitten on the raw cashew itself. It ranged from burning, to stinging, messing up my throat for hours, sourness and bitterness. Roasting it was fun but I learnt that it has to be burnt to a crisp and properly cooked or it will not be a pleasant experience. I didn't know I could die from that lol and my family didn't even mind too wtf

Great video and channel 👍

I wonder if the "workers" are liable to absorb the "poison" during processing ?