Cashews come from a fruit - Weird Fruit Explorer

Ep 656: Cashew Fruit
Species: Anacardium occidentale
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica

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[JoeMamathan]

"No I am NOT Tobuscus, I don't know what that means." This made me very happy. I don't watch your videos too TOO often, but whenever I do, I enjoy every second! Thanks for the content and teaching me something new every video!

[ameythegooner]

I grew up eating all parts of the cashew fruit in Coastal India.

The cashew nut when it is tender is a rare local delicacy and is cooked in a curry (either purely veg or with dried fish/shrimp).

You can juice the ripe cashew apples to get a refreshing drink. Probably, the biggest use of ripe cashew apples is to get a distilled alcoholic liquor (Feni or Arrack/Hurrack)

[dondon]

We have a lot of Cashew trees in the Northeast of Brazil. We call the fruit "Cajú" and the nut "Castanha de Cajú".

[mglenadel]

Yellow/red, yes, ripeness. The specific astringency of cashews is called "cica" in Brazil. If you process the fruit in a timely fashion, you can get two types of beverage that do last: cajuína and cashew juice. The difference is like filtered and unfiltered apple juice: one is clear the other is not. The most common to find in Brazil is the juice, that, after processed and pasteurized (at least I think it is pasteurized) can be mixed with water to make a refreshing beverage. If you just squeeze the fruit the juice does not taste like much; if you put the thing in a blender with the skin, there is more flavor. Because of the fibrous nature of the flesh, it can be used as a substitute for fish in a vegan ceviche. The light flavor does not resemble fish, but the texture kinda does.

[perry]

dude it looks like you glued a cashew nut to a pepper! this is really educational, now i know why they are so expensive and there are only a few in a can of mixed nuts

[itryen]

As a Brazilian i always wondered why people referred to the cashew nuts simply as "cashews", even though that's what the fruit is called

[EmperorsChildren]

As a brazilian, the title is very funny! I don't think that there's a single brazilian person who doesn't know that, but I guess the nuts are much more common than the fruit elsewhere

[dynamite]

I actually live in the city with the largest cashew tree in the world. One of the things you can do with them is make a nice desert called "Doce de Caju" and I definitely recommend it!

[jrcorsey]

I enjoyed this much more than the first cashew apple video. Thank you for revisiting this! I do wish you had explicitly evaluated the sweetness. Great, unexpected conclusion to the Costa Rica trip!

[tinapetrovicz]

I had a colleague who was originally from Guatamela who brought Cashew juice to work. It was tasty, made me think of mild mango unripe strawberry flavor. It was orange coloured. She could buy it as a frozen concentrate, like we get Orange juice, at a Latin America Grocery Store in Ottawa (Canada).

[hcps]

1000% agree that curry leaves smell like a "gasoline" - I thought I was the only one!! 😂😂😂

[Kavriel]

When you said Tobuscus i had a flashback, PTSD time. I'm pretty sure i'm entitled to some form of compensation for the trauma.

[CookingWithCows]

Instead of gasoline, maybe pine resin is a good analogy? Mangos also have this compound that is a bit resiny

[velnz]

To answer your question Jared: Tobuscus (Toby Turner) is a beloved gaming youtuber popular in the early 2010s, you just so happen to share the hair and chin. Afaik last people heard of him was some pretty risky allegations and theres certainly some controversies as of the past 3 years. He made a lot of people's childhoods here on this website, people just had the nostalgic experience of someone who looks similar.

[akagamicosplay]

For it being related to poison ivy, you sure played around with it for a good minute
The apple looks tasty, too

[joannad]

In Panama this fruit is called the marañón and we had a tree growing at the bottom of the garden. The local people used the fruit to make an alcoholic drink. Apparently it comes from Spanish maraña meaning a thicket or brushwood . Marañón is a place name in Navarre, a surname in Galicia, Spain and a river in Peru.

[randomassortmentofthings]

Tobuscus was a famous Minecraft YTber during the more early days of Youtube. He disappeared into obscurity after being accused of sexual assault. He has a song about cashews

[ariariaris]

Oh wow, I ate a few of these like 13 years ago when I lived in acapulco! A friend’s dad had a bunch of cashew trees. I thought they had a soft mango texture but the flavor was somewhere between peach and jamón serrano (the very expensive spaniard ham). I probably couldn’t identify that flavor anymore since I stopped eating meat 3 years later but it was super reminiscent of that when I tried it back then...

[pedroff_]

The town I grew up with is named Aracaju, which means "parrots'(/macaws') cashew trees", and we have a handful of statues of giant cashews around the place. If you ever do a video on Northeastern Brazil, would love to direct you to some cool things to do and eat

[bethotoole]

Dude, , you just messed up my world. I’m 65 and never knew this is how cashews grew.

I can die happy now!!