Dear Siva, You may also want to take a look at A comparison of the flavor and compositional quality of peanuts from several origins KL Bett, JR Vercellotti, NV Lovegren, TH Sanders… - Food chemistry, 1994 – Elsevier Comparison of fatty acid content of imported peanuts JSL How, CT Young - Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 1983 – Springer and just a thought, the international trade with peanuts/peanut products is enormous, so do you know that the origin of the peanuts from China is actually China and not U.S.A., which has a large export of peanuts/peanut products, to for example to China? See for example http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323309604578428853032945948 All the best, Anders Anders Møller Danish Food Informatics Borgediget 12 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark From: Food Composition Discussion Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Siva Sivakumaran Sent: 21 October 2014 08:07 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Peanuts Dear All Peanut butter - products (even store brands) approximately >95% nuts? Does the source of peanut (China vs Australia) make any difference to Nutritional Composition ? Regards and Thanks. Siva The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disseminate, distribute or reproduce all or any part of this e-mail or attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. Any opinion or views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited. _____ To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L <https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1> &A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1