Talk:Anacardic acids

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I don't get it:

"Heating these anacardic acids converts them to the alcohols (cardanols), but does not destroy their activity[6] unless high heat is used, which decarboxylates them"

When you remove a COO from anacardic acid (i.e. decarboxylate it) you get cardanol. You can not decraboxylate cardanol, because it is not a COO-acid.

Is eating cashew nuts anti-caries, preventing S.Mutans (=the main caries bacteria) in teeth?

88.192.242.201 (talk) 21:41, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Revise: parent compound, then derivatives...

in keeping with most similar articles, this one might be revised to start with the parent anacardic acid, and then describe derivatives later in the article. The parent is the anchor to contextualize the derivatives. Almost certainly it is colorless BTW. --Smokefoot (talk) 03:24, 24 September 2023 (UTC)