The Amazon seems to have been the warm womb from which different species of the genus Anacardium radiated to the rest of the world. And the cashew tree, its best known representative, a rustic, spontaneous tree native to Brazil, more precisely in the sandy coastal zone of fields and dunes, which extends from the northeast to the lower Amazon, is today widespread throughout the tropical regions of the globe. The Tupi-speaking natives, indigenous inhabitants of northeastern Brazil, were already very familiar with cashew and made it one of their most complete and important foods. The indigenous are even owed their name: the word acaiu, of Tupi origin, means “nut that is produced”.

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