History of Cashew Nuts Processing
History of cashew
The cashew tree is rooted in the coastal regions of Brazil. In the 16th century Portuguese explorers took note cashew from this South American country and introduced the nuts in other tropical regions such as India and some African countries, where they are grown now. In India, the cashew was seen initially as a solution to combat coastal erosion because of its deep roots. The tree felt on Indian soil more pleasant than in his home country and spread so quickly. Elephants were particularly Cashew apples was delicious and so were the notes inside. The note was for the animals difficult to digest and thus was later ejected again with the faeces, so the seeds were spread ever further towards the interior.
Beware commercial plantations were developed in the nineteenth century and the tree was spread to several other countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The processing of the cashew nut, which is quite labor-intensive relative to other nuts and moreover may be dangerous because of the irritant oil which is located between the two outer skins, in India was started in the first half of the twentieth century. In the 60s of the twentieth century brought some of the producing countries in East Africa, the nut processing to their own country instead of cashews sent for processing to India. So they could take advantage of not only the sale of processed nuts, but also from the peel oil and other products of the cashew nuts.
The cashew tree has long been seen as a valuable natural resource for the usable wood, resin and the cashew apple, but the cashew itself only became known from the beginning of the 20th century when its popularity spread rapidly across the western countries, which the cashew nut was seen as a healthy treat.
