Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit
Each cashew nut hangs beneath a cashew apple. The shell around the nut contains an irritating oil, which is why cashews are always sold shelled.
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India produces over 230 million tonnes of milk a year — roughly a quarter of the world’s total — mostly from small farms with a few animals each.
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The Aztecs valued cacao beans so highly that they were used as currency — a turkey could cost about 100 beans.
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A bell pepper scores 0, a jalapeño around 5,000, India’s bhut jolokia over 1,000,000 and the Carolina Reaper about 1,600,000 Scoville heat units.
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