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PEANUT OIL

Worldwide, about 2/3rds of the peanut crop is processed for peanut oil.

Peanut oil accounts for 8% of the worlds edible oil production.

Burning cooking oil to generate energy is nothing new; when Rudolf Diesel introduced his diesel engine in 1900, it ran on peanut oil.

Elisa Ludwig (EatingWell, April/May 2006)

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