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Peanuts "main ingredient of margarine"? I don't think so! I can't speak for everywhere, but in the US marge is usually mostly a corn or soy oil / water emulsion, and in Europe it's a rapeseed oil / water emulsion. The claim is reffed, but the ref is old and weak. Ef80 ( talk) 15:11, 16 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Composition section says:

"Ranked second [for what?] after soya beans, peanuts are the world's largest source of vegetable oil. They are the main constituent of margarine and are "produced" [rendered? sold?] commercially as salad and cooking oil. ChgoJohn ( talk) 03:39, 12 September 2023 (UTC) reply

Sales statistics are unsupported, with a link only to an article about Zimbabwe, not global, production. ChgoJohn ( talk) 03:41, 12 September 2023 (UTC) reply

All these claims are highly dubious. I suspect peanut oil was once much more important than it is today, and that corn, rapeseed, sunflower and palm oil production have all greatly increased. I don't know where I'd buy a bottle of peanut oil today even if I wanted one. Ef80 ( talk) 09:58, 13 September 2023 (UTC) reply

please change ((mushroom))s to ((Edible mushroom|mushrooms)) 2601:540:CA80:5FB0:9592:1017:D782:57BB ( talk) 02:46, 24 November 2023 (UTC) reply

 Done. Zefr ( talk) 03:52, 24 November 2023 (UTC) reply

I just came across this:

• A 1690s Peanut is Reborn

I was hoping to find out why peanuts would have been imported to the southern US from Africa if they are originally from the Americas. GA-RT-22 ( talk) 17:21, 31 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Hello, the 'Cultivation' section contains

one typo (after a "." the "p" of the first word of the following sentence should be "P")

and one misplaced sentence (describing the appearance of the pods, seemingly slipped in by mistake - surely really belonging to the plant description section; definitely not fitting in with the description of the harvesting process).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:3030:A72:D802:A84:FA8:485:2383 ( talk) 13:58, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I fixed the typo but you'd have to be more specific about the other problem. GA-RT-22 ( talk) 14:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC) reply