Cashews Are Actually Seeds
By CarolDM
@CarolDM (203422)
Nashville, Tennessee
February 18, 2021 1:26pm CST
Cashews have always been a favorite snack of mine. Unsalted nuts are good for your heart and many other things.
Cashews are classified as seeds because they grow inside the cashew fruit, which is also known as a drupe.
Oddly enough, many of the most popular “nuts” aren’t true nuts either. Walnuts, almonds, pistachios, and pecans are also seeds of drupes, just like cashews.
I learned something new today. Did you know this? I would love to have a cashew tree.
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31 responses
@kaylachan (73530)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Feb 21
Most "nuts" are seeds. Some nuts aren't even nuts at all. I don't really care, I just eat what's good. And I love the taste.
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@kaylachan (73530)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Feb 21
@CarolDM I like salted but I'll eat what I can get.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
18 Feb 21
I have also learned something new. I would love to have a cashew tree as well. I love cashews, but do not eat them very often.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
18 Feb 21
@CarolDM I like the salted ones best. I can eat some of them on the keto diet, but it's like less than a cup I think.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I do too but I am trying to cut back on my salt.
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. I had to look it up. Botanically, bananas are berries!
And I read some other surprising things.
@MommyOfEli2013 (84439)
• Rupert, Idaho
18 Feb 21
Never knew that, just always thought it was a nut! But that is cool
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84439)
• Rupert, Idaho
18 Feb 21
@CarolDM Some things are definitely surprising once we hear them!
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
19 Feb 21
we used to get raw cashews in Thailand. We had to bake them ourselves - it was so much fun!
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
19 Feb 21
@DocAndersen Wow that is a great price. They are pricey here.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
19 Feb 21
@CarolDM in thailand we could get 5 lbs of cashews for less than 2 bucks. They became my favorite nut, only to return to the US where they were expensive!
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Feb 21
My favorite also. When I was little and went to town with my step dad he would stop and get a small bag of warm fresh cashews at this nut store for me cause I thought them such a treat yum 
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Feb 21
@CarolDM a wonderful childhood memory you gave me
thank you 
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
18 Feb 21
@bunnybon7 That makes me very happy. 
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@MarshaMusselman (38864)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Feb 21
So what makes a nut a nut then? It has to grow outside a shell? Never mind, I can look it up sometime.
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@MarshaMusselman (38864)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Feb 21
@CarolDM neither do I, lol. But I think I had to many slivers of almonds yesterday unless something else I ate is wrecking havoc with my stomach.
I love cashews and almonds.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
19 Feb 21
@MarshaMusselman I do as well. And pistachios.
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@LowRiderX (22903)
• Serbia
19 Feb 21
@CarolDM Cashews is very healthy and I buy it often, I didn’t know about that fact nor did I ever think about it
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
19 Feb 21
@LowRiderX I have read a lot about all nuts being good for something! Unsalted ones.
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@LowRiderX (22903)
• Serbia
19 Feb 21
@CarolDM I believe that everyone is in charge of another organ in the body ... walnuts are said to be good for the brain (because it looks like that organ) for beans to be good for the kidneys, etc. I'm not sure how reliable this information is, but I found it interesting
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@LindaOHio (183944)
• United States
19 Feb 21
Thank you for the information. I like all kinds of nuts. They are my favorite snack.
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