Empirestate Trading

Empire will be our face in the future.

We have seen the necessity of high quality Nut products to be accessable to more people in South Africa.

We believe that making these products more accesable to more South Africans, we can indeed nurture a healthier culture.

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 The northeast of Brazil, near the Equator is probably the area from which the cashew originates. It is likely that Spanish sailors introduced the cashew to Central America in the sixteenth century and the Portuguese colonists to its territories in East Africa (Mozambique) and India (Goa), from which its cultivation extended to Indonesia and the Philippines.

The cashew fruit consists of two distinct parts, a fleshy stalk in the form of a pear, also called cashew apple, with a brilliant yellow or red skin, which can measure from 5 to 10 cm; and a nut of greybrownish colour, in the shape of a kidney, which hangs from the lower end of the stalk or "apple" and which is the true nut called cashew, very rich in carbo-hydrates and Vitamin A. Of the stalk or "apple", juices, syrups, preserves, wine or licors are obtained. But its main commercial use is the cashew nut itself; shelled, roasted and salted forming an ingredient as snack and the confectionery industry (delicacies, chocolate ... )

The principal producing countries of cashews are India, Mozambique and Brazil.

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The origin of the almond can be located in the temperate desert areas of western Asia, from which it gradually spread to the warm and dry regions of the . A fruit full of history and tradition, the almond is presently the most important article among the edible nuts, being the indisputable leader of the world market.

With an extraordinary nutritious value the almond contains a high level of calories, being very rich in calcium, phosphorus and potassium.

The principal producing countries are the , , , , , Tunissia and . They are marketed in various forms: inshell, shelled, blanched, slivered, chopped, flour, roasted, sweetened, salted ...

It is used as a snack, in confectionery (marzipan, "turrón", nougat ...), food products (almond milk, ice cream, chocolate), culinary recipes and also as a cosmetic base.