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 ...

Lahiru Dushyantha: Usually, people think that cashew products just come to the market as they are. No, this is a very complex process. Narrator: Each fruit grows just one shelled nut, called a ...

The nut is unique because it grows from the bottom of a piece of fruit known as a cashew apple and is removed from the fruit after the apple is fully ripened and falls or is picked from the tree's ...

The Accra street vendor looks at me, bemused. I'm trying to establish how the rather flimsy 30g bag of roasted cashew nuts she's selling, beside a sweltering highway in Ghana's capital ...