Sugar Glazed Cashew

Sugar

Sugar is a class of sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two bonded monosaccharides; common examples are sucrose, lactose and maltose. White sugar is almost pure sucrose. During digestion, compound sugars are hydrolysed into simple sugars.

Cashew

Cashew is the common name of a tropical evergreen tree Anacardium occidentale, in the family Anacardiaceae. It is the source of the cashew nut and the cashew apple. The tree can grow as tall as 14 meters.

sugar

Noun

1. A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
2. Any specific variety of sugar.

Verb

1. To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
2. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

glazed

Adjective

1. Of eyes: glistening but not focusing on anything in particular; showing no liveliness.
2. Having a glaze (a coating).

Verb

1. simple past and past participle of glaze

cashew

Noun

1. Any tree of the genus Anacardium.
2. A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.