Recently, cashews have become popular throughout the world for the following reasons:
1. Snacks
Cashew nuts are considered a healthier alternative to other savoury snacks.
2. Food ingredients
Cashew nuts are also an ingredient in various foods and functional food products, such as breakfast cereals, fruit and nut bars, and chocolate products.
3. Cashew Milk
In the age where diary consumption causes more and more allergies, is not suitable for vegans and other types of common diets – cashew nut products are a good diary replacement.
4. Cashew Butter
Similar to peanut butter, cashew butter contains a lot of healthy fats. It has a little high concentration of monounsaturated fat compared to peanut butter.
5. Cashew Cheese
Cashew cheese can be in various forms: soft cheese to use as a bread spread or hard cheese as well.
7. Cashew Yoghurt
Cashew yoghurt is made from unsalted raw cashew, has lower sugar, and many health benefits.
8. Medicine
People also use the nut to make medicine. Cashew is used for stomach and intestinal disorders. Some people apply cashew directly to the skin as a skin stimulant and to seal ulcers, warts, and corns.
9. Cashew powder
Cashew powder can easily replace almond flour and be used in cookies, muffins, and quick bread. Cashew flour is already sweet by nature and it doesn’t have the bitterness that almonds can have.
10. Cashew oil
Cashew oil is recognized as extremely top-quality cooking oil, and it is also frequently regarded as healthier than other types of cooking oil.
11. Cashew skin cream
Cashews are known as acne-fighting nutrients.
12. Oil
The oil is used for industrial and medical purposes. Further, the oil is useful for surface coatings, paints, varnishes, wood coating.
13. Biofuel
Cashew nut shells can provide energy in different ways and can be in solid and liquid form.
Cashew nut shell liquid is an important and powerful bio-oil whose calorific value is comparable to that of petroleum oils.