quality control and breeding

Proper quality control of peanuts is crucial for several reasons. Firstly, it ensures food safety by identifying and eliminating contaminants such as aflatoxins, which can pose serious health risks if consumed. Secondly, it maintains product consistency and integrity, guaranteeing that consumers receive peanuts of expected quality every time. Additionally, stringent quality control helps prevent economic losses for both producers and distributors by reducing the likelihood of product recalls or rejections due to substandard quality. Overall, robust quality control measures are essential for safeguarding public health, ensuring customer satisfaction, and protecting the reputation of peanut producers and the industry as a whole.

monitoring oleic content and aflatoxins

The QSorter® Explorer can accelerate and standardize your quality inspection process, allowing to bin peanuts according to their quality profile. You will be confident that your aflatoxin levels are where they should be, and that your high-oleic peanuts are contamination-free.

remove subjectivity

With its unique sorting and analysis capabilities, the QSorter® Explorer can accelerate and standardize your quality inspection process, optimize your workforce, and reduce errors. You will be able to save time and resources while increasing confidence in the quality control processes.

measure oleic purity

Another concern from the peanut industry is the purity levels of high-oleic peanut batches which recently are trending more and more in the US and South America. Contamination from conventional peanuts can take place during farming or seed production, transport, and handling of peanuts. This has an impact on the peanuts’ shelf-life and freshness after roasting which is also felt by the end consumers.

10x faster than manual inspection

The QSorter® Explorer was developed to quickly measure the quality properties of peanuts, such as damaged peanuts, moisture, oleic acid content, and color of every single kernel in your sample. It is 10 times faster than manual inspection processing samples of 5 kg in under 10 minutes.