The trees are a member of the same family as poison ivy, and like poison ivy, cashew plants contain a toxin called urushiol. It's found in the plant itself and the brown oil inside a nut's shell.

THE Cashew Board of Tanzania (CBT) has set ambitious target for the cashew nut production, with plans to increase production to one million tons by 2030. Francis Alfred, director of CBT, shared the ...

Cashews are often referred to as a nut, but botanically they are ... but contain a shell with a seed on the inside. Cashew plants belong to a group of plants known as anacardiaceae, which includes ...

from the big meaty Brazil nuts that grow in a cluster inside a large outer shell, the cashew that is a single nut outside a big fleshy fruit, and the small pine nuts that grow within the woody ...