Peanuts come from Brasil. Nowadays they are grown in the tropics and in the subtropics, mainly in China, India and also in USA, Argentina.

It is pulse plant, which fruit (hulls) are pushed under the ground and there they ripen.

They contain till 50-60 % of fat, 20-30 % of proteins, carbohydrates, cellulose, etc.
They occur in different forms: raw and roasted, whole, halves, diced with different sizes, meal, paste.

They are used mainly in food industry as the ingredient to cakes, ice-creams, chocolate, etc. Also delicious oil and butter nut are produced, which are used as filling to sweets and ingredient to bread-stuffs.
They have an antidepressing influence, they increase intellectual activity.