Because cashews are a seasonal fruit. More from Retail A triangle pointing ... The most difficult and dangerous step is splitting open the nut, since toxic oil still coats the drupes.

Raw cashews are indeed poisonous to humans ... Cashews grow off an edible but nonetheless false fruit, the cashew apple, which looks kind of like an inverted red bell pepper and tastes decidedly ...

Cashews are classified as drupes. Drupes are fruits that have a fleshy exterior ... shell is inedible due to the presence of urushiol, a toxic compound also found in poison ivy.