id: 16
name: Peanut
flavor_bible_name_variants: oil peanut,oil peanut for cooking,oil peanut for frying,oils peanut,peanut oil
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status: draft
source: foodb,flavor_bible
food_db_name: Peanut
flavor_db_name_variants: peanut
name_scientific: Arachis hypogaea
description: The peanut, also known as the groundnut and the goober and taxonomically classified as <i>Arachis hypogaea</i>, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial producers. It is classified as both a grain legume and, because of its high oil content, an oil crop. World annual production of shelled peanuts was 42 million tonnes in 2014. Atypically among crop plants, peanut pods develop underground rather than aboveground. It is this characteristic that the botanist Linnaeus used to assign the specific name <i>hypogaea</i>, which means "under the earth." (Wikipedia)
itis_id: 26463
wikipedia_id: Mr. Peanut
picture_file_name: 16.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 285702
picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:29:07.000Z
legacy_id: 16
food_group: Nuts
food_subgroup: Nuts
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:15.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:13.000Z
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updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3818
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00016