腰果皮可以食用嗎?

腰果是一種營養極豐富的堅果,主要生長在印度、巴西、越南、莫桑比克和坦桑尼亞等國家。近年來,人們越來越喜愛腰果,市場對腰果的需求也越來越高。然而,關於腰果皮的消費,你了解多少?

Cashew skins

In fact, the cashews that grow on trees attach to the top of the fake fruit. After being picked, the first peel off the outer hard shell of the nut. We can use the cashew shelling machine to do this.

全自動腰果殼機
全自動腰果殼機

In addition to this hard shell, there is a thin layer of skin on the outside of the nut, which is usually a darker color. After removing this layer, you can get yellow and white cashews.

Raw cashew nut skin is not edible

Cashew nutshell and skin is toxic, cashew shell juices contain chemical substances on a person’s skin to corrosive. So artificial shell needs to be hand protection and compared with the shell more toxic the kind of skin. Before eating raw cashew nuts, must put the cashew nuts soaked in water for 5 hours.

腰果殼碎機
腰果

But according to experts, when eating raw cashews, it’s best to remove the cashew nut skin.

The processed cashews are edible

Some cashews that are baked with salt or charcoal on the market have a skin on them. But the nuts are processed with the poisonous seed coat removed. And the skin that appears before us is the skin that the cashews have formed themselves after being baked with salt and charcoal, so they are edible.

腰果殼剝機
腰果去殼機

Most of all kinds of cashew nuts are on the market of the peeling process. For the processing steps, most of the cashew nut manufacturers will choose to use the cashew peeling machine. After peeling of cashew nut and seed coat thoroughly separation, and do not harm the cashew kernel, is an essential part of cashew nuts processing production line of a device.