I didn't know this. How cashews grow.

[Figarosmom]

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[Phoenix61]

1. I got to try the fruit when I was in Belize. It's very good.

Kind of like a cross between a mango and a plum.

[Figarosmom]

4. The fruit looks juicy.

[applegrove]

2. When a guy who grew up on a farm in Haiti told

me this, I thought he was lying.

[Figarosmom]

3. Yeah i would have thought the same

No wonder they cost more than peanuts.

[applegrove]

5. Yes. Explains a lot.

[Skittles]

10. I just googled CASHEW because I thought this sounded a bit far-fetched

[applegrove]

11. I think I did too at the time, 15 years ago.

[Harker]

13. Gesundheit.

[True Dough]

17. You know it's trouble

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when I came to this thread prepared to type Gesundheit.

Great Simple minds, and all that.

[Harker]

18. You have my sympathies, TD.

[True Dough]

19. I spelled "trouble" as "troble"

Sorry to troble you!

[Harker]

20. No truble.

[LeftInTX]

6. They're related to poison ivy. So are pistachios and mangoes.

I would probably be allergic to the fruit since I'm allergic to mangoes.

Once you have poison ivy, you can become allergic to mangoes. Although the mango allergy is very common, it only causes a slight rash around the mouth. So if you have bumps around your lips and you are eating mangos, you now know where it's from!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. I have strong reactions to poison ivy

I had to skip days of school because my eyes were swollen shut from it.


Mangoes don’t bother me and I eat cashews with no problem but if I so much as look at a poison ivy plant I get reactions. Weird

[LeftInTX]

8. I had a rash when I was pregnant and then afterward. Went to the dermatologist and self diagnosed via pamphlet.

I was eating like five of those large pulpy Tommy Atkins mangoes a day and stripping the fibrous pulp out with my teeth.
Ataulfo mangoes have much thinner skin and the pulp isn't as stringy, so I don't have a problem with them.

Precut mangoes are fine. The mango skin apparently contains the oil.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/13esmel/til_mangos_are_in_the_poison_ivy_family_and_the/

&ab_channel=MontefioreHealthSystem

https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2020/01/31/cashews-pistachios-and-mangos-oh-my/


Atualfo on left. Tommy Atkins on the right ?20100904075643

[soldierant]

14. The oil that causes the reaction does not reach the edible part of the cashew, only the shell.

Which is why you will never see cashews sold in the shell. Obviously that isn't true for pistachios.

I have a number of food allergies. Fortunately, "tree nuts" is not one of them (peanuts is one, but they are actually a bean, not a nut, and some other beans will get me as well.) But I have a dear friend who is allergic to "tree nuts" but not to cashews, pistachios, or coconut. So I have done some looking up.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. The Scary Part Is...

...that urushiol is a true sensitized. The more often one gets a reaction from contact, the less it takes next time.
There are a lot of such chemicals, many being organic anhydrides, but urushiol is not a compound like that.

[electric_blue68]

15. Wow. Luckily I managed Not to get poison ivy. Was occasionally in places in the 'burbs, and countryside where I...

could have!
Like cashews, love pistachios!

[Skittles]

9. wow

I've loved cashews all my life, did not know this.

[Fla Dem]

12. Unbelievable the work that goes into producing one small nut.

Nature is amazing and those that realized what could be done with a growth on the bottom of an apple were amazing.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. An interesting video on jackfruit follows; well worth a watch !

I've been kind of fascinated by jackfruit since I first learned of it from a Vietnamese friend (I had a hard time believing her); a colleague from India gave me my first (canned) sample. The video explains why it's not grown much outside its traditional zone -- it's kind of a finicky crop.

BTW, the seeds are edible too -- I leave them in the green jackfruit when I'm making Sloppy Jacks.

[crosinski]

22. This is why I love the lounge.