Cashews grow in tropical locations like India, Vietnam, Ivory Coast, and here, in Sri Lanka. The trees are a member of the same family as poison ivy, and like poison ivy, cashew plants contain a ...

Extracts made from parts of the cashew plant that are usually thrown away when the nuts are processed commercially were found to significantly limit the development of fat cells and the ...

Cashew fruit are too fragile for export from the tropics where they grow. Fresh cashew ‘fruit’ has a very short shelf-life so is used as soon as it has fallen from the tree. In some parts of ...