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 the world, cashew ‘fruit’ are turned into various alcoholic drinks.
Narrator: Each fruit grows just one shelled nut, called a drupe ... in Sri Lanka. The trees are a member of the same family as poison ivy, and like poison ivy, cashew plants contain a toxin ...
Cashew nuts are Guinea ... First we go to the trees, look for the cashews, carry them back, separate the nuts from the fruit - then you start pounding the fruit. "Sometimes we pound to fill ...