how to cashew nut processing?

  Cashew nuts originated in Brazil and spread to India, Nigeria and other countries in Africa. They are also grown in China's Hainan and Yunnan provinces.Cashew nuts like the tropical areas with more light and high temperature, and they have strong vitality.

  Cashew and hazelnut, walnut, almond, known as the four major nuts, a lot of people like to eat cashew, but the processing of cashew is rarely understood.How to cashew nut processing?

  Cashew nut is the fruit of cashew tree, its shape is more special, the fruit is divided into two parts, a large part for the receptacle is called "cashew apple", the small part is the nut fruit part, namely the cashew nut with shell.When a "cashew apple" turns from green to yellow to red, the fruit is ripe and the skin is waxy. "Cashew apples" can be eaten fresh, made into drinks or wine into jam and so on.The small nut parts, however, should not be eaten fresh.Fruit farmers will pick up the cashew apple front nut part of the wring down, after a number of professional processes of processing production, before eating.

 

1. High temperature fumigation

Fresh cashew nuts have a hard thick green shell, rich in oil, there is a certain toxicity, contact with the skin will appear allergic symptoms, and even lead to life danger.

First of all, the cashews with shells should be fumigated at a high temperature of more than 100℃ in the boiler, after the process of disinfection, insecticide and sterilization.

2. Automatic drying

New cashew dryer using the principle of air heat pump, drying process has a number of modes to choose, according to the characteristics of cashew with shell, through the cashew dryer PCL computer intelligent control system set drying parameters, the drying room with cashew shell to remove most of the water, until the shell cracked, nuts and shell preliminary split so far.Used of dried nut shells that are extracted and pressed to make paint Excipients, nuts continue to enter the subsequent processing procedures.

 

3. cashew shelling machine

After drying, the cracked cashew nuts are shelled by cashew sheller (the operator should take good measures to protect the skin) and the peeling process. Mi-white cashew nuts finally get rid of the thick shell and reveal their true appearance.

 

4. Sanding and sorting

Cashew nuts after disinfection, sterilization, drying, shelled and peeled, but also through grinding, color inspection, sorting and grading, can become a true standard of raw cashew kernel.This is why products like walnuts, peanuts, almonds, pecans, macadamia nuts, etc. are sold in the shell in the supermarket, but cashews have to be stewed and shelled to reach the market

 

5. Make them into tasty snacks

Raw cashew nuts can be used to make char-roasted cashew nuts, salt-baked cashew nuts, honey cashew nuts, roasted cashew nuts, etc., according to people's different tastes.