Cashew kernels do not grow like most nuts inside a shell within a fruit. Instead, a single cashew kernel grows on the outside and hangs from the bottom of a fleshy cashew apple, which is also edible. Translated post text: Unlike most nuts that mature inside a hard shell within a fruit, the cashew kernel grows externally at the bottom of a fleshy cashew apple — a pseudofruit that is edible. The true fruit is the kidney-shaped cashew fruit attached to the cashew apple. It has a hard shell containi