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	Database Entry for Cajueiro - Anacardium occidentale, Cashew, Cajueiro - Anacardium occidentale, Cashew, Cajueiro - ...
		Cashew trees are often found growing wild on the drier sandy soils in the central plains of Brazil and are cultivated in many parts of the Amazon rainforest.
		The cashew tree and its nuts and fruit have been used for centuries by the indigenous tribes of the rainforest, and it is a common cultivated plant in their gardens.
		Because of its high amount of vitamin C and mineral salts, cashew fruit is used as a catalyst in the treatment of premature aging of the skin and to remineralize the skin.
	www.rain-tree.com /cajueiro.htm (1707 words)

	Ghana Cashew Products : Home
		The CCC was founded by David Rosenthal, who has been involved in cashew importing for the past 16 years.
		In recent years the interest for the crop has grown and this is evidenced by the growth of demand for cashew seed nut for planting which has increased from about 1 MT in 1994 annually to about 10 MT in 2007 annually.
		An estimated 3.24 million ha of suitable land is available for cashew cultivation in the country.
	www.ghanacashewproducts.com (225 words)

	About Cashew - :: About the Crop ::
		Cashew apple is eaten fresh or mixed in fruit salads and a drink is prepared from the juice.
		Cashew is grown in areas with rainfall ranging from 600 – 4500 mm per annum.
		Cashew is highly cross pollinated and vegetative propagation is mainly recommended on commercial scale to produce true to type planting materials.
	dacnet.nic.in /cashewcocoa/tech.htm (1615 words)

	The Nut Factory : Kitchen : Interesting Facts : Cashews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Portuguese seamen brought the seeds of the cashew nut tree from Brazil to be planted by the early settlers along the east coast of Africa.
		Cashew trees flourish in extreme heat in the tropics and are readily found near the equator.
		Cashews are graded on how white they are and how broken the kernel is. There are four color grades, four styles of break on the kernel and six sizes (or maximum number of kernels per pound).
	www.thenutfactory.com /kitchen/facts/facts-cashews.html (2167 words)

	Cultivating cashew nuts
		The cashew is a strong plant that is renowned for growing in soils, especially sandy soils, that are generally unsuitable for other fruit trees.
		Cashew trees are subject to zinc deficiency that can be treated with 200 g zinc oxide/100 l water applied as a leaf spray.
		Cashew is an excellent choice to grow around the house as a shade tree with healthy fruit (apple) and nuts.
	www.nda.agric.za /docs/cashews/cashew.htm (1940 words)

	Cashew Apple
		The true fruit of the tree is the cashew nut resembling a miniature boxing-glove; consisting of a double shell containing a caustic phenolic resin in honeycomb-like cells, enclosing the edible kidney-shaped kernel.
		The cashew is native to and northeast Brazil and, in the 16th Century, Portuguese traders introduced it to Mozambique and coastal India, but only as a soil retainer to stop erosion on the coasts.
		Medicinal Uses: Cashew apple juice, without removal of tannin, is prescribed as a remedy for sore throat and chronic dysentery in Cuba and Brazil.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/cashew_apple.html (753 words)

	Cashew News
		The cashew apple is harvested as a fresh fruit and for juice in its native Brazil.
		Cashew is rich in vitamins of B group, especially thiamine which is useful for stimulation of appetite and nervous system.
		Cashew brandy is used as a liniment for rheumatism and neuralgia.
	home.comcast.net /~debstgeorge/cashew.html (3329 words)

	Cashew Lore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cashews have served nutritional, medicinal, and wartime needs, and more recently have been used in the manufacture of adhesives, resins, and natural insecticides.
		The cashew is a hardy perennial tree, resistant to drought, unexacting as to soil (though it prefers deep, sandy soil, and capable of living 50 or 60 years.
		Cottage-industry cashew processing is an excellent alternative to large-scale, capital-intensive processing -- it permits closer attention quality and color, producing more unbroken kernels than machines can, and it permits the processors more independence in how they operate their home-based businesses.
	www.steele.com /cashew/cashew.html (410 words)

	raw cashew nuts - are they really raw? (cashew apple tree)
		The cashew tree is a hearty, fast-growing evergreen with an umbrella-like canopy.
		The leaves of the cashew tree are four to eight inches long and two to three inches wide.
		Cashew trees produce both a fruit ("apple") and a nut, and a valuable oil can be drawn from the nut shell.
	www.living-foods.com /articles/rawcashew.html (675 words)

	cashew. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		), tropical American tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the family Anacardiaceae (sumac family), valued chiefly for the cashew nut of commerce.
		The nut grows on the end of a fleshy, pear-shaped stalk, called the cashew apple, which is white, yellow, or red, juicy and slightly acid, and is eaten or fermented to make wine.
		Cashews are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Anacardiaceae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/cashew.html (216 words)

	Cashew - Cashewnut Recipe, Cashew Tree, Butter, Fruit, Nutrition
		Cashews originate as cashew fruits; the shell of the fruit is taken off and the thin skin peeled off from the nut inside before we get the kernels we call cashew nuts.
		Cashews are traded as cashew kernels in several grades, based on the size, colour and other quality parameters of cashew.
		Explanation of cashew grade terminology: The alphabets at the front represent a word descriptive of the form of cashew – W for whole, B for Broken, S for Split etc. The numbers that follow the alphabets (where present) usually represent the number of kernels per pound.
	www.cashew.in (3170 words)

	Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's Organic Cultivation of Cashew Nuts
		Cashew is a five-year tree crop, which grows in the dry zone of Sri Lanka.
		In Sri Lanka, organic cultivation of the cashew as well as processing of the nut under bio conditions has been undertaken under the EPV for the first time to cater to discerning export markets.
		350 Stakeholder farmers of the EPV are engaged in the organic cultivation of cashew under the EPV.
	www.unescap.org /DRPAD/VC/CONFERENCE/bg_lk_7_soc.htm (476 words)

	Cashew nuts
		Cashew nuts are the stone fruits of the cashew tree, which grows to a height of up to 12 m and belongs to the sumach family (Anacardiaceae).
		Self-heating of cashew nuts is an extremely vigorous process, as the consumption of fatty acids by respiration processes is associated with a considerably greater evolution of heat than is the case with the respiration equation for carbohydrates.
		Cashew nuts in bags must not be stowed together with fibers or fibrous materials, either, since oil-impregnated fibers accelerate self-heating processes.
	www.tis-gdv.de /tis_e/ware/nuesse/cashew/cashew.htm (1924 words)

	Chapter 5: Tree Fruits & Nuts and Exotic Tree Fruits & Nuts
		The cashew is a hardy drought-resistant tropical or subtropical tree.
		The cashew is a somewhat straggly evergreen tree, 12 to 15 m in height, seldom taller, with oblong 6- to 7-inch leathery green leaves and terminal, many flowered panicles.
		Cashew plants are usually grown from seed and thinned to 30 by 30 feet.
	gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov /book/chap5/cashew.html (941 words)

	Cashew - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Cashew, common name for a tropical evergreen tree, for its edible nuts, and for the family to which the tree belongs.
		Sumac, common name for any of a genus of deciduous or evergreen shrubs and trees of the cashew family.
		acorn, almond, brazil nut, cashew, chestnut, cobnut, cola nut, groundnut, hazelnut, hickory nut, horse chestnut, macadamia nut, monkey nut, peanut,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Cashew.html (140 words)

	Cashew Information
		What appears on the tree to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval to pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower.
		Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the fruit of the cashew is a seed.
		Cashews have a very high oil content, and they are used in some other nut butters to add extra oil.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Cashew (706 words)

	Hands On: Cashew Processing in Gampaha - Sri Lanka
		In the past, one of the problems faced by the women cashew processors was that cashews are a seasonal crop and the women could not afford to buy huge stocks that could be processed throughout the year.
		Cashews are loaded into all the trays and the heat is gradually increased.
		The cashews in the tray nearest the bottom of the cabinet dry first and the tray is then removed.
	www.tve.org /ho/doc.cfm?aid=756 (1330 words)

	cashew (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cashew Kernels are obtained from rawcashew nut, which is grown in cashew tree(Anacardium Occidentele).
		Cashew is rich in vitamins of B group, especially thiamine which is useful for stimulation of appetite and nervous system.
		Cashew is useful in anaemia, being rich in iron.
	www.bolacashew.com /cashew.htm (425 words)

	Cashew Butter
		Related to pistachios, cashews are said to have originated in Brazil, although they are now mainly grown in India and Africa, with India producing 90% of the world’s cashew crop.
		Cashew nuts are always removed from their shells, known as "apples," and treated to remove a caustic oil that is natural to the cashew.
		Cashew Butter is particularly known for calcium, iron, protein, magnesium, the "B" vitamins and zinc.
	www.futtersnutbutters.com /cashew.html (319 words)

	Cashew Apple - Anacardium occidentale
		The cashew apple is not a true fruit, but the swollen stalk to which the cashew nut is attached.
		Cashew apples are vitamin-C rich and eaten fresh or juiced in growing areas.
		Cashew's generally prefer ample water, but too much rainfall and/or very high humidity may retard growth, trees seem to do better in slightly drier tropical climates.
	www.tradewindsfruit.com /cashew_apple.htm (153 words)

	Asia, Africa need to join hands to promote world cashew trade
		Cashew sector in the producing and processing countries is fragmented.
		Cashews' share in the world nut business -and more significantly in the world snack food and food market - needs to be increased.
		New uses for cashews as an ingredient in foods - for instance, increased use in chocolates, ice creams, cooking etc have to be found to make cashews a part of the daily diet rather than just a snack food.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/20010224/fco24055.html (831 words)

	Anacardium occidentale (Cashew)
		Cashew trees are indigenous to restinga vegetation on coastal dunes of northeastern Brazil where they are exposed to onshore winds with salt spray.
		Cashew trees were introduced to India by the Portuguese in the 1500's where they came to be grown mainly for producing wine and brandy.
		Cashews have spread widely in the Indian Ocean region and have become naturalised in seashore habitats.
	www.museums.org.za /bio/plants/anacardiaceae/anacardium_occidentale.htm (520 words)

	cashew
		Cashew seedlings are very sensitive to competition with weeds, but in many areas, especially on sloping land, the vegetation should not be removed completely before planting because of the danger of water and wind erosion.
		Cashew fruit are generally left to fall to the ground before being collected, as this is an indication that the kernel is mature.
		Cashew is considered by small-scale producers to be one of their most lucrative crops and the work needed comes at times which do not conflict with peak labour times for food crops.
	www.fao.org /ag/ags/agsi/Cashew/Cashew.htm (11031 words)

	About Cashew
		The first introduction of cashew in India was made in Goa from where it spread to other parts of the country.
		Cultivation of cashew in India confines mainly to the peninsular areas.
		Now cashew occupies an area of 7.70 lakh hectares in the country as on 2002-2003 with a production of 5.00 lakh MT. Of these, 2.00 lakh ha of the plantations developed from the beginning of 8th Plan alone have been with superior clones of high yielding varieties.
	dacnet.nic.in /cashewcocoa/cashew.htm (382 words)

	Cashew Nut - Cashew Apple - Cashew Fruit
		The cashew "nut" is a kidney-shaped seed that grows on a tree not more than 30 feet tall, like an apple or cherry tree, in a double shell at the end of a sweet smelling pear-shaped fruit called the cashew "apple".
		The cashew nut is not as hard as other nuts and has a delicate, sweet flavor.
		The inside of their shell contains a poisonous resin related to the poison ivy family, known as cashew balm which must be carefully removed before the nut can be consumed.
	www.nutnutrition.com /allaboutnuts/cashew.htm (180 words)

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