RAW CASHEWS 1 KG

Oltresole raw cashews are a protein food with a unique and inimitable taste, excellent to consume for breakfast or as a hunger-busting snack. Cashews are a type of dried fruit widely used in the preparation of desserts but they can also be used to prepare bread, focaccia and other delicious recipes. Raw cashews preserved under vacuum to keep their aroma intact are extraordinarily rich in nutritional properties: vitamin A B1 and B2 and mineral salts (magnesium, potassium, iron) as well as being a very energetic food. Natural cashews are perfect for enriching various cooking recipes to add to first or second courses or salads. They are also widely used by vegans as a substitute for cheese or cream. Consumed as salt-free snacks, they quench the appetite and are easy to take with you to enjoy when needed. Cashews, like all dried fruit, have a fair number of calories so it is advisable to limit their consumption if you are following a low-calorie diet. The 1kg Oltresole convenience size pack is perfect for having a natural and genuine product always available. PAIRINGS: Natural cashews are perfect for enriching various cooking recipes to add to first or second courses or salads. They are also widely used by vegans as a substitute for cheese or cream. Consumed as salt-free snacks, they quench the appetite and are easy to take with you to enjoy when needed. Unlike other oily nuts, the cashew contains starch for approximately 10% of its weight. This makes it a good thickener for watery dishes such as soups, meat stews and some dairy-based Indian desserts. Many Asian cuisines use cashews instead of other nuts because of this unusual characteristic. WELL-BEING AND HEALTH: The presence of a good quantity of selenium in cashew nuts offers excellent benefits against joint pain thanks to its good anti-inflammatory properties. Among the properties of cashews we also find the antioxidant ones carried out by zeaxanthin, a pigment contained in cashews which, by filtering UVA rays at the level of the retina, is able to protect the eyes from possible sun damage and prevent the ocular degeneration typical of advanced age. CURIOSITY: One of the most interesting aspects of the cashew concerns the fruiting of the particular tree as two types of fruit related to each other are produced. The first fresh one is called cashew apple (or cashew apple in Brazil) which is not a real fruit as it corresponds to the enlargement of the floral peduncle but is so called because in appearance it resembles a small apple with fibrous pulp and colored variable from green to yellow to red. The second dry "is instead a real fruit from a botanical point of view (it therefore derives from the flower) and is called cashew nut, a sort of nut with a hard coating inside which there is an oily seed with a typical heart shape which corresponds with cashew which is used from a food point of view. The name derives from the Greek term kardia which means heart. The indigenous population of the cashew-producing countries uses many parts of the plant to prepare medicinal substances and insect repellent lotions.