benefits of cashews and almonds

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Benefits Of Cashews And Almonds
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Introduction

• The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a
  tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew
  nut and the cashew apple.
• It can grow as high as 14 m (46 ft), but the
  dwarf cashew, growing up to 6 m (20 ft), has
  proved more profitable, with earlier maturity and
  higher yields.
• The almond (Prunus dulcis, syn. Prunus amygdalus)
  is a species of tree native to the Middle East,
  the Indian subcontinent and North Africa.

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• The species is originally native to northeastern
  Brazil.
• Portuguese colonists in Brazil began exporting
  cashew nuts as early as the 1550s.
• Major production of cashews occurs in Vietnam,
  Nigeria, India, and Ivory Coast.
• "Almond" is also the name of the edible and
  widely cultivated seed of this tree. Within the
  genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in
  the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the
  other subgenera by corrugations on the shell
  (endocarp) surrounding the seed.
• The fruit of the almond is a drupe, consisting of
  an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed,
  which is not a true nut, inside.
• Shelling almonds refers to removing the shell to
  reveal the seed.

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