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English: Cashew sprouts collected in a basket. This is eaten raw as well as cooked during monsoon season when its sale value drops. These sprouts are normally available during the season immediately after the rains. Those fallen nuts lying on ground and somehow missed to pick up by harvesters, would have germinated in the fertile soil by this time. Another lot comes from the late crops. Some of the ill-fated cashew fruits (along with nuts) are late to mature. If the rains have arrived before they are harvested, the seeds become useless for normal market consumption. In this case, they are better used at home either directly or after slight sprouting, in 'curries'. In curries they taste somewhat similar to mushroom.