Why are heat-treated cashews allowed to be sold as “raw”?

I only recently learned that many cashews sold as "Raw" may still be heat-treated during shelling and drying.

That made me wonder whether the word raw has become too loose.

To many consumers, raw means:

• never heated
• minimally processed
• natural state

But in practice, “raw cashews” just seems to mean unroasted, not necessarily unheated.

So shouldn’t cashews that are never heat-treated be the ones considered genuinely raw?

Then products exposed to steam or heat could simply be labeled:

• Unroasted cashews
• Heat-treated cashews
• Plain cashews

I’m not attacking cashews — I eat them too.

I just think consumers deserve clearer labeling, because “raw” currently appears to mean different things depending on who is selling it.

Anyone else found foods labeled as “Raw” that clearly aren’t raw at all?