Peanut butter is a food paste made from ground nut or peanut. It consists essentially of cleaned, graded, blanched, roasted and crushed groundnuts containing about 45 percent of oil and over 25 percent of proteins, being thus a highly nutritive food. The major groundnut-producing countries of the world are India, China, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burma and the USA. The peanuts are shelled and dry-roasted the skins are removed and the nuts are finally ground. This material is blended with salt and other ingredients that may include hydrogenated fat, dextrose, corn syrup solids, and lecithin and anti-oxidants.
Plant and machinery required for the manufacture of peanut butter are not much sophisticated and can be procured indigenously. Peanut butter is used for making Sandwiches, candy and other bakery products.
Few Indian Major Players are as under:
•Ruparel Foods Pvt. Ltd.
•Agro Tech Foods Ltd.
•Bonville Foods Pvt. Ltd.
•United Foods
•R.M.Foods
•Super Nutri Foods
•Sonya Foods PVT. LTD.
•Das Foodtech Pvt. Ltd.
•Saaz Foods
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