Michigan
State University Extension
Preserving
Food Safely - 01600662
10/13/97
CASHEW-GENERAL
Cashews have an edible, fleshly fruit covering which
can
be eaten raw without harm. But between the outside
shell
and the kernel is a very irritating toxic oil related
to
poison ivy, which must be removed or destroyed by heat.
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