Our healthiest oil carefully processed
Peanut oil is a vegetable oil that comes from the pressing and/or solvent extraction of peanut kernels. It has a high nutritional quality and is easy to digest, recommended for people suffering from digestive disorders, as well as being rich in vitamin E, which strengthens muscles and prevents tumors. It is used in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries, among others. All the oil produced by Brumau-NUTOIL is exported to some countries as Italy and China and then refined and marketed.

Physical and Chemical Characteristics:
Indices Reference Values Unit
Density (25ºC) 0.911 – 0.914 g/cm³
Peroxide Index < 10.0 meq/kg
Acidity < 2,00 %
Unsaponifiable matter < 1.0 %

Fatty acid composition:

FATTY ACIDS REFERENCE VALUES (%)
Myristic acid < 0.6
Palmitic Acid 6.0 – 16.0
Palmitoleic Acid < 1.0
Margaric acid < 0.1
Heptadecenoic acid < 0.1
Stearic Acid 1.3 – 6.5
Oleic Acid 35.0 – 72.0
Linoleic Acid 13.0 – 45.0
Linolenic acid < 0.3
Arachidic Acid 1.0 – 3.0
Eicosenoic Acid 0.5 – 2.1
Behenic Acid 1.0 – 5.0
Erucic Acid < 0.3
Lignoceric acid 0.5 – 3.0.

Reference Values: RDC Nº482, of 23/09/1999, of the National Health Surveillance Agency – ANVISA.