Characterized by providing your body with many important essential nutrients, cashews are an ideal vegetarian food and a valuable pharmaceutical for a number of diseases. As a high-fat food, 0% cholesterol is suitable for dieters. Currently, developed countries are encouraging the use of increasing cashew kernel.

1. Origin and General Characteristics

Cashew trees, also known as cashew peaches, are native to Brazil, the tropics in South America. Gradually, the trees are dispersed to Africa, Asia, Australia. And today cashew trees spread out its original boundary. Cashew has an scientific name is Anacardium Occiden Tablel, which belongs to the family of mangoes. The English trade name is cashew tree.

Cashew trees can withstand diverse and harsh climatic conditions. The tree likes high temperature, and sensitive to cold. Tropical climate with a clear dry season is a good condition for cashew growth. According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), there are currently 32 countries producing cashew nuts but cashew trees grow only in tropical and subtropical countries. The 10 largest cashew growing countries in the world today are India, Vietnam, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, Indonesia, Guinea Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, and Benin.

2. Production and Consumption of Cashew in the World

Cashew nuts have long been supplying to humans as a food. Many countries consider cashew kernels as the second most important industrial crop. Cashew kernels contain high protein content with a full range of essential amino acids compared to meat, eggs, and milk. Cashew nut is a food with high nutritional value which is the main component of cashew in business exchange in the market. Cashew kernels bring high economic benefits as an important role in the agricultural market. Annually, cashews provide exporting countries a considerable amount of foreign currency.

The leading importer of cashew nuts in the world is the United States, consuming nearly two thirds of world cashew production. The second largest market is the bloc of former Soviet Union, followed by the European Union (EU) and Japan.

3. Cashew season in Vietnam

Cashew nuts trees only give fruits once in a year. The cashews nuts season lasts from March to end of May or early of June in Vietnamese. Farmers here started to care for trees right after the harvest so that they can have more efficient crops next year. In Vietnam, the highest quality of cashew nuts is from cashews grown in basalt red soil. The reason is that the soil will provide plants as well as the most nutritious seeds.

4. Cashews – a sign of luck

In many countries, cashew nuts are a very popular nuts, especially during holiday time. On the holiday, when family members or friends gather together and spend time with each other, cashew nuts is a good choice as a snack while chatting. In Vietnam, during Tet holiday, it seems that every family has a cashew snack on their table. In addition to five good-luck fruits (annona, coconut, papaya, mango, figs), many people think that cashews nuts will bring about luck. The popularity of cashew nut is also easy to understand because Vietnam is one of the countries with the largest cashew nut production in the world. Vietnam produces more than 150,000 tons of cashew kernels annually (equivalent to 600,000 tons of raw cashew nuts).

From cashews, you can cook into different dishes. Cashew nuts is a unique seeds which can be combined with sweet or with salty flavor. The most common are roasted cashews with salt or mixed with malt sugar. In savory dishes, cashews become extremely greasy and attractive when stir-fried with chicken or beef. Many people also add cashew powder into the salty sauce to make a good color of the dish.

People in Vietnam usually choose cashew nuts that are bright yellow, dry, without oily surface. The way for preservation of dried roasted cashews is putting into dry glass jars with tight lids, keeping in a dry place, preventing it from straight sunlight.

5. Benefits of cashews

Cashew nuts are taken from the fruit of the cashew tree. After harvesting the ripe fruit, nuts are gently separated from the fruit. The nuts are dried in the sun and then continue to dry before being put into the processing. The fruit part contains many vitamins and minerals, which can be used as a juice or fermented to make alcohol. The removal of nuts and shell is a quite complex task. The most dangerous part in the processing is the sap of cashews. If sap exposes bare skin, it will cause burns and some skin diseases.

In 100g of cashew kernels contains the following substances: water 4g, glucid 28.7g, protid 18.4g, lipid 46.3g, ash 2.6g, minerals: Ca 28mg, P 462mg, Fe 3.6mg, vitamins A 5mcg, vitamin B1 0.25mg, vitamin C 1mg, provide 564 Kcalo (according to FAO, 1976). So cashews is good for people with physical weakness, sore throat, cough. Therefore, cashews are a product of nutritional value and economic value. When roasted, the cashew has a delicious, sweet, fleshy taste. Cashew nuts are also often used in producing candy, cake, or different kind of snacks. In addition to using whole cashews, broken nuts are processed into butter or milk. For good cashew nuts, you should choose the kind of light yellow, dry, blooming, not scorched or moldy.

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