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[–] 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (26 children)

This is a cashew fruit:

Apparently the fruit part itself tastes like a creamy apple sliced pepper, but it goes off quick and so we never see it in supermarkets. Each one is a single nut. You won't look at a bag of these guys the same way ever again.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I love how the bottom looks angry

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Knowledge is knowing cashew is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The fuit probably could go in a fruit salad. The nut, though, is a nut

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Cashew nuts are fantastic in a fruit salad though... cashews, mango, strawberries, cherries and tart apple slices? With maybe a teensy bit of honey drizzled over? Thatd be delicious.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I love cashews. Eat them by the fistful. I always think about the energy and time to get each one of those nuts to my table, only for me to gobble them down in 3 seconds

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I think of this too. I worry that they're not really an ecologically sound food source - i think it takes a lot of water to grow a cashew because of the fruit, which is discarded.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    ...a creamy apple? It's closer to a bell pepper but more dry IMO

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I've never tried, so just repeating what Ive heard. Is it just a shell then, no flesh like an apple?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, I've never eaten it raw, but cooked it was an empty shape like a sliced pepper. It was good, but creamy apple is wild as a description

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    updated my initial post, thanks

    Kinda disappointed. I really want to taste a creamy apple now

    Also I think you're not meant to eat it raw becausr of some toxins?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Oh and as far as the toxins, you'll get a straight up chemical burn if you touch the seed pods. Usually they use tools to pull off the shell and roast it, which can lead to a warm raw cashew when you bust it open

    You can eat the fruits without that, but you have to be careful to keep out the caustic oils. Cooking it is probably just safer

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Well, good news... The amount of fruits we have no name for is insane in tropical regions. There's trees that just casually make candy pods, like those little jello fruit cups that used to be popular. There's so many with unique flavors, and even more that are vaguely similar

    There's definitely something that tastes like a creamy apple, there's too many fruits out there for that not to be a thing. Nature likes to chemically mix and match

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)