Peanut Butter Manufacturing Industry. Start a Food Processing Factory. Processed Food Industry
Peanut, also known as groundnut, is classified as both a grain legume and an oil crop (because of its high oil content).
Applications: peanuts are used for
•Production of nutritional supplements
•Peanut butter
•Confectionery Products – peanut candy bars, peanut butter cookies, cakes, chocolates
•Snacking Products – salted peanuts, dry-roasted peanuts, boiled peanuts
Peanut butter is a high protein, low calorie product that possess high nutritional value. It is healthy alternative to dairy butter and used as bread spread. Major market presence of peanut butter is in western countries in comparison to Asian countries such as India as product is relatively new to the Asian region. Peanut butter is used in various applications in the form of spread and is used as the substitute for milk butter.