Peanut

The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also called groundnut, groundnut, oil nut nut or monkeys, is, in spite of all these names, botanical seen any nutbut a legume. The peanut plant belongs as all peulvruchtdragenden to the pea family Fabaceae.

As with other plants, the flower itself above ground, and it develops after fertilization a pod with usually two seeds. Then the fruit undergoes a special development: the stem which grows the pod gets longer and drills in the ground. This part of the stem is called a gynofoor or stamper carrier . Then the fruit matures and goes under the ground, under natural conditions, germination to.

The peanut plant is an annual plant that originated in South America and by the Spaniards in the 16th century in tropical and subtropical areas around the world was distributed.

The peanut plants are harvested In september and October, after which they will be laid to dry up with the peanuts. Excavated peanuts contain 25 to 50% moisture and must either draining up to 10% or less before they can be stored. The largest producers of peanuts are China, the United States, Israel, Egypt, South AfricaandArgentina . Israel and Egypt mainly produce for export of the raw nuts in Cap. China also exports raw nuts in shell, although most of the harvest in peeled form is exported or used for the production of peanut oil.

Raw (raw) peanuts can be peeled and eaten. However, it is usual for human consumption mature peanuts first burn. Especially in the winter they are unpeeled used (and often that are) as food for wild birds. Especially in the southern States of the United States are not fully ripened ("green") peanuts cooked in their skins also. They are soft like beans and are eaten with salt or also called sharper seasoned (cajun). ==Consumption[ Edit] == The peanuts for consumption are peeled and blanched briefly so that the film is released. They are roasted or ground into peanut butter. Also peanut sauce made of peanuts and Peanut Soup . Peanuts are used in both sweet and savoury food, or los eaten, often sweetened or sprinkled with salt. They are also much used in biscuits,nuts and other snacks.

Young peanut plant in the TU Delft Botanic GardenThe main fuel in a peanut is fat. Peanuts are much fatter than the seeds of other legumes. ==Peanut allergies[ Edit] == It is estimated that approximately 0.7% of all people has an allergy to peanuts. [source? ] This allergy can be very serious; some react even ferocious on the smell of peanuts.

The most notorious peanut allergens that contains, are three sugar eiwitmoleculen who ' Ara h 1 ', ' Ara h 2 ' and ' Ara h 3 ' are called. Especially the protein portion of these molecules caused the allergic reaction. However, some of the sugar groups makes that many patients with peanut allergies also exhibit a positive result at allergy testing for other legumes. This is called ' cross reactivity. This phenomenon is not infrequently the cause of unnecessarily heavy avoid diets. Only rarely does a patient with peanut allergies also really an additional allergy to other legumes such as soy beans, beans or peas.

Arachis hypogaea; from Koehler (1887)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cross-reactivity is also that many patients with graspollen allergy (hay fever) exhibit a positive allergy test for peanuts, without eating peanuts at them actually caused complaints. A positive Peanut Allergy test does not always mean that there actually are any peanut allergies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">If allergic to peanuts (and/or soy) it is important that there also looks at an allergy to Lupin (Lupinus). Lupine is just like the peanut a member of the pea family (Leguminosae). Often, people with a lupine also allergy antibodies to peanuts in their blood. A lupine reaction can also occur by itself, without peanut allergies, but exclusion is very important, because the food industry since the 1990s increasingly Lupin flour processed in foods as pasta, cookies, pancake flour and snacks. Lupin flour is seen as a good replacement of genetically modified soya. Avoid unnecessary Lupin would then mean a very big limitation on the food supply.Since december 2008, manufacturers have a duty to report the presence of lupine in their product. ==Nutritional value and use<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Peanuts also contain fat in addition to 45-50% 25% protein and approximately 14% carbohydrates.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="157" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]