A cashew nut in the wild might not be what you thought!
The surrounding parts of the cashew (the "fruit") contains some things that can be skin irritating and that can be used as an insecticide. Phenolic resin and anacardic acid among others, so you might wanna stay away from that.
When the cashew nut is detached, it is dried in the sun in its shell (the "fruit") and then steamed or roasted to remove the irritants similar to poison ivy. So raw recipes with cashews are not raw at all.
Nothing is what it seemed to me when it comes to cashews!
They are native to Brazil but were exported to India in the 1500s.
It was actually when I spent two months in India this year that I learned about how cashews are not just a nut.
I was there in the cashew nut season and there were cashew trees blooming everywhere!
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Interesting, ive been eating those in Sri Lanka and it tasted quite good, maybe a little bit too "full" but we didnt get any irritations, the local people would eat it all the time :)