cashew
Cashew nuts are also called trees. Lacqueraceae. Evergreen trees, up to 12 m, milky. Simple leaves, alternate, oblong or obovate, leathery, entire, length10 ~ 20cm, width 5 ~10cm, glabrous. Large panicles with rusty hairs. Flowers are yellow, carpels 1, ovules 1. Nut kidney-shaped, squashed on both sides, about 2.5 cm long, hard and bitter resin in exocarp, containing oily edible seeds; The fruit stalk expands to form a large and fleshy pear-shaped structure (fake fruit), which is 5 ~ 9 cm long and bright yellow or red when mature. Native to South America, it is cultivated in tropical areas such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Madagascar. In recent years, introduction has also been made in southern China. The swollen fruit stalk (fake fruit) is sweet and sour, edible or brewed, and the nuts are fragrant and fried, commonly known as cashews; The shell can be used to make insulating paint, waterproof paper, cardboard and other adhesives. Oil and bark milk can be used as paint.
Cashews are ripe,
The lush cashew trees are singing happy songs.
Please have a taste! Dear traveler:
This nectar-like juice,
Will fill your dry heart.
-African Mozambican folk songs
Cashew nuts, an evergreen tree of Uraciaceae from tropical America, are rarely needed by human beings, and can thrive even in deserted wasteland or beaches, but they always provide delicious fruits and delicious dishes for human beings.
Cashews are drought-tolerant. They can blossom and bear fruit three times a year. These flowers are yellow with red stripes. For people who don't know botany, cashews give people a strange feeling. Its seeds grow outside the fruit and are connected with the lower end. In fact, the part we usually eat as fruit is not the real fruit, but the fruit holder, also called fake fruit, and the real fruit is the part we call the seed. Cashews are a bit like pears, but they are much smaller. They are green when they are born and gradually turn red when they mature. They are sweet and juicy, slightly astringent, rich in nutrition and of high economic value.
Cashew kernel is a precious dried fruit and high-grade dish. The protein content is 265,438+0%, the oil content is 40%, and the multi-vitamins content is high. In international trade, every ton of cashew kernel is worth more than 5,000 US dollars, which is worthy of being one of the "four dried fruits" in the world. The oil content of cashew nut shell reaches 1 1%, and cashew nut oil can be polymerized to produce synthetic rubber. Painting furniture with cashew nut oil can resist high temperature. It is reported that the American space shuttle uses scientifically processed cashew nut oil as the protective coating of the fuselage.
Cashew nuts have been planted for more than 4000 years. They originated in the northeast of Brazil and were introduced to Asia and Africa in the16th century. It is now distributed in dozens of countries and regions within 20 degrees north and south latitude, and is also widely planted in Brazil, India, Mozambique and southwest Hainan Province. The history of planting cashew nuts in Hainan Province is only 50 years, but at present there are more than 200,000 mu of waist orchards in the whole island.
In Mozambique, Africa, cashew nuts are especially popular with local people. Whether in books, paintings, advertisements, calendars, sculptures and other works, or in daily necessities such as furniture and clothing, cashew nuts or cashew nuts can be seen everywhere, and some novels, essays and poems with cashew nuts as the theme are also published in large quantities. Whenever cashews are ripe, farmers wear national costumes and happily pick cashews, and laughter and laughter spread all over the fields, which is a festive scene.
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Cashew nut, also known as "chicken cashew nut", is the fruit of cashew tree and an important dried fruit originating in tropical areas. It is one of the four famous dried fruits (walnut, almond and hazelnut) in the world today, and it is named after the shape of the fruit is kidney (commonly known as kidney).
Medicinal fruit tree is a fruit tree with high economic value. The fruit stalk is sweet and sour, edible and can also be used for wine making. Nuts have high nutritional value and are rich in protein, fat and carbohydrates. They are sweet and delicious, and can be fried, pickled or made into candied fruit. If it's easy, you can fry it on the fire. The fried nuts are crispy and delicious. "Fake fruit" is also rich in fruit juice and vitamin C, which can be eaten raw as fruit or used to make jam. Cashews are rich in fruit juice and can be drunk directly. They are a cool and refreshing drink. In medicine such as fermentation or brewing, it is also widely used as a serum cleanser for diabetic patients. The oil content of nuts is as high as 40%, which is a high-grade edible oil. An aromatic oil can be extracted from the fruit shell, which can be used in pharmacy, refining high-grade lubricant or synthetic rubber. The oil extracted from the shell can also be used to make adhesives such as insulating paint, waterproof paper and cardboard. The milky juice overflowed from the bark can be made into paint, which can be applied to wood or ships to prevent corrosion and termites. The wood of cashew trees is the best material for making furniture. The leaves and roots of the medicinal tree can be used to make medicinal tea. It can be said that the waist fruit tree is full of treasures.