A tourist was left with third-degree burns on his face after biting into an exotic fruit at a market in Mexico.
Thomas Harold Watson, 28, says he experienced a burning feeling like "fire" going across his mouth immediately after biting into the wrong part of the fruit.
He had unwittingly bitten into the outer shell of a cashew nut – two layers of hard shell which contain cardol and anacardic acid - which can cause vicious burns.
Cashew nuts grow on cashew trees, with the nut encased in a hard shell, attached to an edible fruit known as cashew apple.
Thomas Harold Watson, 28, says he experienced a burning feeling like "fire" going across his mouth immediately after biting into the wrong part of the fruit.
He had unwittingly bitten into the outer shell of a cashew nut – two layers of hard shell which contain cardol and anacardic acid - which can cause vicious burns.
Cashew nuts grow on cashew trees, with the nut encased in a hard shell, attached to an edible fruit known as cashew apple.
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00:00 So, I've just gone to the market, got myself a whole load of different random fruits.
00:05 This is the one I'm most excited about, the cashew apple.
00:09 So that's the cashew nut on top, and the apple underneath.
00:12 Let's see if it's any good.
00:14 I'll try some different flavours, so that's the red one.
00:25 Yellow one. Orange.
00:33 I've dried my mouth out a little bit. Seems alright.
00:44 Don't know if I'm going to eat that, but...