WTF Is A Nut?!

Cashews are among the most popular “nuts” consumed, but did you know they come from a fruit? What makes a nut, a nut?

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Where Do Cashews Come From?
http://www.livescience.com/46602-wher...
“Sprouting like a tail from the bottom of an oddly-shaped fruit, the cashew, in its natural state, is both very weird-looking and very poisonous.”

Quite Interesting Facts About Nuts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-fi...
“True nuts include pecan, sweet chestnut, beech, acorns, hazel, hornbeam and alder. Peanuts, almonds, pistachios, cashews, horse chestnuts and pine nuts are not nuts.”

Peanut Facts
http://www.peanut-institute.org/peanu...
“Peanuts actually grow underground, as opposed to nuts like walnuts, almonds, etc. that grow on trees (and are sometimes referred to as "tree nuts").”

Almond Facts
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tn...
“The almond that we think of as a nut is technically the seed of the fruit of the almond tree, a medium-size tree that bears fragrant pink and white flowers. Like its cousins, the peach, cherry and apricot trees, the almond tree bears fruits with stone-like seeds (or pits) within.”
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