Unlike other nuts like almonds and cashews that must be deshelled before salted and roasted, matured pistachios split the shells they grow in, leaving an opening exposing the edible piece that awaits.

Narrator: After a machine splits open the shells, the next two crucial ... But without intensive, precise processing, these nuts wouldn't be edible at all. So how exactly are cashews processed?

A nut is the edible seed or fruit of a plant, usually surrounded by a hard or brittle shell. Rather like an egg is to a new chick, a nut helps a new plant to grow thanks to its power-pack of ...