Cashew fruit is small to medium in size, averaging 5-11 centimeters in length, and has a bulbous, oval to pear shape. The very thin skin is covered in a waxy, smooth coating, and as the fruit matures, it ripens to golden-yellow or red.
Cashew fruit, botanically classified as Anacardium occidentale, grows on evergreen trees that can reach fourteen meters in height and belongs to the Anacardiaceae family
The Cashew fruit is rich in nutrients and has 5 times more Vitamin C than an orange. Chemically, the cashew fruit contains volatile compounds, resorcinolic acid, anacardic acids, carotenoids ñ-carotene, ò-carotene and ò-cryptoxanthin, vitamin C, phenols and tannin.
The Cashew is native to Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and northern South America,
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