Peanuts, as one of the few special
agricultural products, have high yield, high consumption and high trade volume
in China's grain and oil resources. “China’s peanuts producing rank the first
in the world, which total output accounts for 40% of the world and the total
export of peanut accounts for 20% of the world, that allowing china dominated
in the global market”, Zhang Jiafeng introduces, director-general of CCOA,“with
the consistently improving of peanut processing technology, many kinds of
peanut food are emerging, and the proportion of peanut food processing has been
increasing year by year, approaching 40%” he says.
“Specialization of processing varieties is the main tendency of peanut’s future, including oil varieties, varieties of protein drinks and varieties of gel proteins etc. Furthermore, high oleic peanut will become the mainstream of development,and carrying on deepening the peanut protein products developing such as preparative technique of protein concentrate, preparative technique of protein composition etc. All of which do promoting the peanuts development. Besides, Peanut protein beverage varieties tend to diversity, peanut butter innovative products come to emerge, such as flowery ice cream, peanut butter, energy bars, etc. Except Semi skimmed, mixed nuts and special flavor peanut snack foods will be developed very quickly”, Wang Qiang says, the head of peanut industry branch of CCOA. “The by-products such as leaves, shells, fruit, and red skin of peanuts often containing in multifunctional ingredients, that be worthy consistently developing”, he emphasizes.