"Ground nuts were widely known at the time of the Spanish & Portuguese conquest of South America. They spread to South Asia in the 16th century, eventually flourishing in India."

PEANUTS

Indian peanuts are cultivated over an acreage of 31 million hectares - roughly the size of Nigeria.

Indian peanuts are consumed in over 50 countries. Indian peanuts are the only source that are available all round the year. Crops are planted in two cycles and harvested in March and October. There are several other inter-cropping cycles which makes Indian peanut a prime source of supply.

Recent quality drive in the Indian peanut industry by APEDA have started resulting in good practices in food safety & the control of aflatoxin.

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about PnutKing !

The PnutKing brand is a registered trademark quality of peanuts from India exclusively for the factory and high quality standard users of peanuts. PnutKing is the GOLD standard of peanut quality

The Product

The raw material for PnutKing brand is carefully chosen. If anything can go wrong in quality, it starts from here!. We are experienced with Garbage in Garbage Out (GIGO) process.

We source from the green-belt of peanut production to avoid aflatoxin sources. While processing we do not spray water and refrain from touching the product. We believe that choosing the best raw materials significantly reduces the stress on process or machine to produce best quality.

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The Machine

The machines play a great part in filtering out the defectives. Therefore we have chosen best in class machinery to process our peanuts.

Grading and cleaning machines are from LMC, USA.
Elevators for finished products are tubular to avoid product exposure. They are from MPE - USA
Laser scanner which reduces the aflatoxin by scanning for moulds with 4 lasers are from TOMRA, BELGIUM
The metal detectors can check as low as 0.8mm ferrous/ 1mm non-ferrous/ss 1.2mm. They are from the inventors of metal detection i.e. METTLER TOLEDO, UK
Our packing line with top speed & accuracy is from PAYPER, SPAIN
The machines combined capacity comprises a 480 Tons/Day which makes this factory India’s largest by capacity.
We are the only Indian peanut/groundnut exporters in India to use such technology for processing peanuts

The Quality

The quality of our product is checked by an External quality controller and the sales person to meet our internal standards of specifications.

20% random sampling is done to ensure coverage.
Aflatoxin is tested by HPLC method in-house.
The sacks that are checked are sealed as "Checked" to ensure traceability.
We make sure the product is at least 99.50% clean before we send them for shipments.
Apart from product quality, we also focus on the right packaging solutions based on transit time.
PnutKing is the only branded high quality peanut supplier for snack food in India with BRC certification
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peanut varieties

Indian peanuts are Non-GMO with a high fat and oil content.

There are several Indian peanut varieties, including Java, Bold, TJ, Java Long, G20, K6, Mathadi, J24 and Western 44. Customers often buy the Java (white round shape) for hand to mouth consumption while the peanut butter factories choose bold, Tj & blanched peanuts depending on the process and chopped peanuts for toppings.

depending on the seeding type, peanuts grow between 90 and 120 days. Each seed variety have varying oil content, shelf life & freshness.