DEVELOPMENT & HARVEST
Cashew nuts are the seeds of a tropical tree, family of the pistachio tree. The nuts grow in a hard shell hanging from a fruit, the cashew apple. One apple produces just one nut. This nut will be ripe a fortnight before the apple ripens and will fall from the apple. The nuts are picked up and dried. The apples from which the nuts grow are also edible. 
Cashew nuts are dried both artificially and naturally in the sun. When the nuts have been dried, they are taken to factories by buyers for further processing.


PROCESSING
The cashew nuts are roasted in their shells to make the hull crackable. There are cracking machines, but it is still often done manually. During cracking the released oil is collected. The nut is heated in order to take off the brown skin. Then they are sorted for size and color. As the nuts have to be heated for cracking, and because the shells are not equally thick, there will be color differences in the nuts. This difference is divided into three grades. Then they are sorted by size. This is done by number of pieces per pound (453 grams).

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Our factories produce according to the Stolp International specifications or the specifications of our customers. We make sure all quality requirements are met through reports of analysis of origin, entrance controls and analysis performed by accredited laboratories.

And of course, completely in line with the Stolp International goals: you get the best quality (under BRC AA certification) at affordable prices.

You work with Tosca (formerly known as Contraload) pallets? Don’t worry: we can deliver your products on these pallets too.

Direct full truck/container deliveries from origin to you are possible under our responsibility and risk, but so are on-call contracts in which a certain quantity at a certain price is being guaranteed for your call-offs to be made over a certain period of time, assuring you of the availability of your products as you want them & when you need them.

For advice, questions, guidance and of course price offers, please contact us through e-mail or +31 (0)33 299 17 11.