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Peanut Products Summary
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The peanut, or Arachis hypogaea, is a member of the legume family commonly called the groundpea or goober. It produces two to four edible subterranean seeds in separate pods on viney plants. Peanuts are made up of a shell, skin, and a kernel. It is...
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Peanut Information
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The peanut, or Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the legume family Fabaceae native to South America, Mexico and Central America. [1] It is an annual herbaceous plant growing to 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1½ ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, pinnate...


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Connection, New England's Journal of Higher Education
Peanuts
10/01/2000: 492 words, approx. 2 pages
What's Love Got to Do with It? A Critical Look at American Charity, David Wagner, The New Press, 2000, $$25 American philanthropy, God knows, needs and has always needed constructive criticism-as does everything else in this democracy. Currently almost every aspect of philanthropy...
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The Journal Record
Heritage and peanuts
04/02/1999: 389 words, approx. 1 pages
WAKEFIELD, Va. (AP) -- Buses loaded with recruits bound for Norfolk's Navy base during World War II made frequent stops at eateries along U.S. 460. Often, the restaurants would get word in advance when buses planned to unload dozens of hungry young men. At...
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Scientists get OK for engineered peanuts
12/26/2006: 614 words, approx. 2 pages
A leading industry group has given scientists the go-ahead to build genetically engineered peanuts that could be safer, more nutritious and easier to grow than their conventional version.The work could lead to peanuts that yield more oil for biofuel production, need less rainfall and grow...
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CDC tracks peanut butter contamination
2/16/2007: 1,115 words, approx. 4 pages
Government scientists struggled to pinpoint the source of the first U.S. salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, the kid favorite packed into millions of lunchboxes every day.Nearly 300 people in 39 states have fallen ill since August, and federal health investigators said they strongly suspect...
 


 

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