Son Thanh cashew nuts has natural color such as pale blue, off-white, light brown, pink. Not entirely through color treatment.

• Cashew nuts raw of Sơn Thành is harvested at the ripening stage, dried to a moisture content of <11%, and stored in a dry and cool place to make sure that it is hygiene and safety for users.
• Cashew nuts raw of Sơn Thành is over the size of 17mm of screen.
• The cashew nuts from the raw is always safe and hygienic (no appear of mold, no strange smell, no sour flavor (pH <7)).
• Sơn Thành cashew nuts raw does not contain organic and inorganic matters.
• Cashew nuts raw of Sơn Thành is on the top of best suppliers in Vietnam to sell the good products to consumers.

Grade size designation of cashew nuts (Count/454 gms size description)
– W180: King size, 170 – 180 seeds
– W210: Large size, 200 – 210 seeds.
– W240: large size, 220-240 seeds.
– W320: medium size, 300 – 320 seeds.
– W450: Medium size, 400-450 seeds.
– W500: Small size, 450-500 seeds.

*The level of broken of cashew nuts after roasting, grade of shape following symbol below:
– W (Whole grains)
– S (Splits along the seeds)
– B (Butts, broken into 2 parts)
– P (broken pieces)
– LWP (Large white pieces)
– SWP (Small white pieces)
– BB (Baby bits)

In Vietnam, cashew tree is grown in many provinces: Bình Dương, Bình Phước, Dak Nong, Dak Lak, Đồng Nai, Quãng Ngãi, Bình Thuận, Khánh Hòa, Bình Định … Each zone has different taste, different quality of cashew nuts. Therefore, recognizing a good product in a large range of Vietnam cashew nuts is not simple, especially for some people who do not eat cashew nuts in usually.

However, cashew nuts in high value mainly used to export to foreign countries and with people who live in European and American, recognizing a good or not good taste of cashew nuts is not difficult because they eat every day, they know how to evaluate a product, delicious or not delicious.

Base on the information above, and with my own experience, I am sure that Bình Phước cashew nuts in Vietnam is the best kind in the cashew nuts’ world

1. Shape And Size:

Cashew nuts of Bình Phước, Sơn Thành is a compact nuts, like a close-packed bread, the smaller grains the compact one and most of people usually like to eat smaller seeds, because a small seeds gives more dense and flavor than the big one. It is very easy to compare with Cambodia’s cashew. Sơn Thành cashew nuts is usually small, but very heavy.
The basic way to identifying Vietnam cashew nuts, cashew nuts in Vietnam is small but round seed and smooth surface, cashew nuts of other countries is usually bigger but there is always wrinkles along the seeds.

2. Color:

Sơn Thành cashew nuts is pale yellow, not white or milk color. This light yellow is like the color of concentration milk – the milk usually be used in milk-coffee. This color is throughout all of the nuts, not on the surface only and white inside, and it is roasted and in the other hands processed nuts are difficult to see it. 

3. Smell: 

Good nuts is always new, of course the old one also good, but obviously the old one is not as good as new one. Cashew nuts is processed and preserved under the good conditions brings the good flavor within 3 months after production date, it is fresh flavor and not rancidity.
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4. Flavor :

When put the nuts into the mouth, first chewing, and first sign is not often give any taste, but chewing more then the nuts begins to crumble in the mouth, the taste begins to appear in a typical flavor, crispy, dry, not rancid & not have a strange smell like mold … feelings and you can capture all flavors of Sơn Thành cashew nuts.

5. Choose Sơn Thành cashew nuts, we choose the good nuts for yo:

If you do not have time to find and choose a good nuts as the expericences we mentioned above, you can choose Sơn Thành’s products – we are commitment that we always choose the best one for you.

While and wholes cashew nuts of Sơn Thành Company is uniform color, it can white or pale ivory, no black or brown spots on the nuts. The range of size is from 200 to 450 seeds/LBS, and meets the quality standard of AFI.

2. Scorched and wholes SW240:

Scoeched and wholes nuts of Sơn Thành Company is uniform color. It is maybe may be scorched/slightly darkened due to over-heating while roasting or drying. The size of cashew nuts is 220 – 240 seeds / LBSand meets the quality standard of AFI .

Besides that, there are many products of Sơn Thành cashew nuts which are produced under the international quality standards such as LP (large peices), SP (small pieces), SB (Scorched butts) …

1 . Receive raw material

All raw cashew nuts batches have to check carefully before imput and store in the stocks if they meet the standards. It means that Sơn Thành can sure for source of the seeds and prevent of using un-safe nuts.
There are some steps in which:

– Check the documents and dossiers of the batch, we only receive cashew nuts batch if it is enough information to trace source and safety.

– Test the physical characteristics: color, smell, taste and flavor

– Test moisture of raw material

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2. Sun-dried and storing:

After receving, cashew nuts will be sun-dried on the clean floor until its moisture gets 11% max, the nuts will be packaged and stored lot by lot in a dry and cool place to avoid of any damage, bacteria and molds .

3. Size and grading

Sơn Thành company will divide cashew nuts raw material into some classes such as A, B, C, D … It is easy for us in next steps of removing shell or other impurities, each kind of nuts will be bag and keep in a right place.

4. Steam cooking:

Raw cashew nuts in shell are steamed to soften the shells and it is easy to to be cracked and shelled.

5. Cashew nut cracking & shelling

The workers, tools and equiments, plant in this steps have to be ensure that they are clean, healthy and hygiene. Cashew nuts will be cracked and shelled by special knife to keep the shape of the nuts and improve products quality.

6. Roasting :

Roasted cashew kenels have a beautiful appearance and good flavor. In the roasting process, cashew kernels are heated evenly in high temperature and they would not stick on the inner wall and kill bacteria. Cashew nut is heating in 11 ± 2 hours and after roasting, cashew nuts are put into buckets and transferred to next step directy on conveyor .

7. Pelling :

The red or brown skin of each cashew kernel is removed at pelling step, after pelling cashew nuts will present as white color and like a kidney shape.

1. Cashew Nuts In The World (Except Vietnam One):

Cashew nuts in other countries is decrible under a big size, kidney shape but more round and curve than the seeds from Vietnam. We can see, it is round and stretch whole grain, light brown of the skin and it is milk-white or pale yellow.

Cashew nuts is harvested in crop season, dried and then roasted with salt in a certain rate. After roasting, skin inner is difficult to peel due to many wrinkles on the body. The seeds is less smell, slightly sour and less fat flavor than cashew nuts from Vietnam.

When splitting the cashew nuts, it can be seen that the seeds is not fulfill, white or milk white. With the shelled one, cashew nuts are usually non-crispy but when roasted again, cashew will return to crispy but not as the original.

Cashew nuts from some countries is cheaper and lower quality

2. Vietnam Cashew Nuts :

Vietnam cashew nuts is not a big size, typical kidney shape with the big round at the beginning and smaller to the ending, dark skin inner and nice pale ivory color

Cashew nuts is harvested in crop season also, the sun-dried until the moisture of products is 11% max. Do not use any soak or cleaning by any chemicals or detergent. Then, it will be roasted with salt. Depend on the kind of products, the temperater when roasting will bring a different flavor for each. Evey 10kg of raw cashew nuts will give 1 kg of seeds. After roasting, only tough to the nuts, the brown skin will be peel off and the seeds will be kept in crisp, aromatic, delicious, typical flavor and not rancidity

When splitting the nuts, you can see 2 sides fullfil, small seeds but it is heavy. The pale ivory color is cover the whole seeds and it is always uniform color. The roasted salt cashew nuts with brown skin is crispy longer than the peel off. However with the peel off, only re-roasting again then taste and flavor can be back. It is very convenience for using, enjoy and storing at home.

Because of the typical taste and quality of the grains, Vietnam now becomes a largest exporter country of cashew nuts in the world. By 2015, Vietnam had a market share of over 50% of the total global cashew trade value (about US $ 5 billion), and it was a year 10th of the world’s leading exporter and the price of Vietnam’s one is also higher than products of from other countries.

3. Mix Cashew:

Mix cashew is a kind of products that people mix Vietnam nuts with the one from other country in a certain rate. The shape and size of products will be presented under un-uniform and very easy to recongnize. The taste is also not typical and as well cheaper than Vietnam cashew nuts only

4. Strange Cashew Nuts – Unclear Origin Kind

Strange cashew nuts is a kind is soaked in chemicals, then the seeds is big, white, nice color and also heavy. However, when we eat, it is very bad, soft, not delicious and completely white whole grains. With the old one – stored in a long time, usually people use additive to last the death time of products, therefore eating slowly and we can feel the rancidity, sore throat and harmful to your health. You can check and see that the price of this kind of products is cheaper

5. In Conclusion:

Depending on the needs, you can choose the good products in an acceptable price and Sơn Thành cashew is know and be proved that we are on the top companies to serve you good quality seeds in a many years.

1. For Adults, Patients:

Good blood pressure control, good for the heart. Cashew kernels are rich in oleic acid, which helps to improve cardiovascular disease and reduces triglyceride levels in blood. In addition, magnesium in cashew nuts can help reduce blood pressure as well prevent high blood pressure – heart attack. Coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk can be reduced by regularly eating cashew nuts because it is low cholesterol and give antioxidants to the body

– Cancer chemopreventive agent – Cashew nuts also provide antioxidant ingredients such as selenium, vitamin E, anti-aging, reduce the risk of cancer.
– Hair and skin care: Cashew nuts is rich in copper content – an important constituent of tyrosinase. This enzyme converts the tyrosin into melanin – producing pigments in the hair and skin.
– Good for the nerves: Studies showed that magnesium in the nuts helps to reduce the frequency of migraine attacks, reduces blood pressure and helps prevent heart attacks. Conversely, magnesium deficiency in the body can causes high blood pressure, muscle strain and fatigue.
– Good for bone health: Cashews also contain magnesium – an additional mineral and combined with calcium to replicate the bone. In addition, copper in cashew nuts provides flexibility for bones and joints.
-Improving brain function: Cashew kernels that help boost oxygenation to the brain play an important role in improving memory, which is due to the fact that unsaturated fats affect the production of brain cells. The great thing is that the nuts are high in both types of fat.
– Lose weight: People who eat cashew 2 times a week tend to avoid obesity. About 75% of the fat contained in cashew nuts is unsaturated fat – a good fat for the body.

In addition, cashew nuts contain large amounts of fiber. Good fat in cashew nuts can help you lose weight and still provide plenty of energy for your body. Cashews also help to facilitate the metabolism of the body.
Preventing gallstones: Studies showed that women who eat at least once a week, such as cashew nuts, are at risk for gallstones less than 25%

– Support the body’s metabolic function, stimulate the release of energy, improve health for patients, depression, lack of substances improve anemia.

2. For Children, Grenancy And Baby:

Promotes fetal development and helps children grow faster, boosting human immunity and increasing disease resistance.
– A nutritious diet is very important to pregnant mothers, because nuts like cashew nuts are extremely rich in vitamins and nutrients that are essential for the body during pregnancy.