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Meet the Guatemalan cashew plum and cashew nuts

March 21, 2020March 6, 2015 by Rudy Giron

Guatemalan cashew plum and cashew nuts — © Rudy Giron

Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Marañón or cashew. If it is the cashew plum, we call it jocote de marañón. For the cashew nuts, we say semilla de marañón. Another name for the cashew nut in Spanish is Nuez de la India. I am back with a studio photograph of the three … Read more

Guatemalan Fruit: Cashew Apple Tree

March 22, 2020June 10, 2014 by Rudy Giron

I believe most people are familiar with cashew nuts, however, I am almost sure many people do not have the slightest idea about the fruit that produces the cashew nuts, the jocote de marañón. Well, here you have it, the jocote de marañón or cashew mombin or as Javier calls it, cashew apple and the … Read more