Cashew
Fruit Jam
The exciting and distinctive
flavour of the Cashew fruit. Try it with goat's cheese to create a mouth-watering
combination of flavours!
Cashew
facts
The Cashew (Anacardium occidentale;
syn. Anacardium curatellifolium A.St.-Hil.) is a tree in the flowering
plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil,
where it is called by its Portuguese name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro
(the tree). It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew
"nuts" .
It is a small evergreen tree
growing to 10-12 m tall, with a short, often irregularly-shaped trunk.
The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obovate,
4 to 22 cm long and 2 to 15 cm broad, with a smooth margin. The flowers
are produced in a panicle or corymb up to 26 cm long, each flower small,
pale green at first then turning reddish, with five slender, acute petals
7 to 15 mm long.
What appears to be the fruit
of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit
that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the cashew
apple, better known in Central America as "marañón", it ripens
into a yellow and/or red structure about 5–11 cm long.
The true fruit of the cashew
tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of
the pseudofruit. Actually, the drupe develops first on the tree, and then
the peduncle expands into the pseudofruit. Within the true fruit is a single
seed, the cashew nut.
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| Proteins |
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0.4g |
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| Fibres |
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0.4g |
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| Calcium |
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18mg |
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| Phosphorous |
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8mg |
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| Iron |
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0.5mg |
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| Niacin |
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0.2mg |
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| Vitamin
B1 |
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0.08mg |
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| Vitamin
B2 |
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0.04mg |
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| Vitamin
C |
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61mg |
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