Chemical Modifications and Applications of Cashew Byproducts - A Selective Review

The cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical flowering tree that generates globally over 4 million metric tons of nuts year. Although the nut most well-known product, other byproducts can produce additional value, including apples, nutshell liquid, cardanol, and gum. Over years, fair amount R&D has been done on in order to increase their value for different applications. In stimulate further interest use these products, selective review applications chemical modifications this Review. A particular emphasis made recent publications by authors gum cardanol derivatives show how specific polymer reactions (e.g., ene reaction, aminohydrin formation, amine-formaldehyde polysaccharide ether ester formation) physical processes blending, complex coacervation, microencapsulation, electrospraying) enhance properties agro-based materials.