While 100 ml of orange juice contains 60 mg of vitamin C, 100 ml of cashew juice has 200 to 250 mg. "Cashew loses only to acerola and camu camu, a fruit not yetmarketed," says agronomist and researcher at Embrapa Ceara, Antonio Calixto.

In addition to vitamin C, cashew, which is rich in carbohydrates, fiber, minerals (calcium, phosphorus and iron) and B complex, has much more to offer due to cashew nuts. "It has 30% protein of high nutritional value and is a major source of vitamin E, which has been linked to heart health and reproductive organs," says Geraldo Maia Arraes, a professor at Federal University of Ceara in the area of Fruit Technology and CNPq researcher.

Because it has so many qualities in a single fruit, cashew is cheap because it is abundant in the northeast of Brazil, where it is very consumed, either fresh, juices, jams, jellies and a variety of ways. The cashew agribusiness generates direct and indirect labor and is responsible for a planted area of around one million hectares in the northeast of Brazil.

Information is from the website Dieta e Beleza.