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That's right; cashews grow on trees and are closely related to
pistachios and mangos. I'm not sure how people get this notion that they
are legumes.
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From: Ingrid
Bauer
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Sent: 4/20/01 4:43:50 PM
Subject: Re: [P-F] paleo correct-to
pistachio or not to pistachio
generally, if a nut grows on a tree, it is considered to be ok i
think....cashews and peanuts are not true nuts...but, they may be ok
for
*you* to eat if they don't cause you any problems....
Cashews ( Anacardium occidentale) family anacardiaceae not a legume ,
grow
on trees are edible raw ( very tasty) . The "raw" cashews sold
commercially
are heat and solvents processed to remove the shell and the skin so are
not
raw.
The really raw ones have a brown skin attached to them like filberts.
Pistachios (pistacia vera ) from east mediteranean to southwest asia
are
edible raw but again are not available commercially in their raw state
being
heat processed to remove the husk and to split open the shell .
When you
find "raw " pistachios it just mean they are not roasted, when you find
them
"natural" it just mean they are not dyed or salted.
The peanut issue put into question the argument that we could not adapt to
a
new flora . difficult to swallow when we are supposed to have been
migrating
a lot along our evolution. I don't think our genetic have that much
diffculty adapting to new food in their natural state as it
have, adapting
to the denaturation "of god given" living combination
of molecules .
Any processing of foods jeopardize our genetic ability to "recognise "
them
.
jean-claude
--- David Crabbe
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