Where do peanuts come from? From that country.

Peanut, also known as groundnut, is native to South America. Peanuts are grown in more than 65,438+000 countries in the world, with Asia being the most common, followed by Africa. According to Chinese peanut literature, the cultivation history is about 65,438+000 years earlier than that in Europe. Peanut is known as "plant meat", with oil content as high as 50%, excellent quality and fragrant smell. In addition to food, it is also used in printing, dyeing and paper industry. Peanut is also a traditional Chinese medicine, which is suitable for malnutrition, spleen and stomach imbalance, cough and asthma, and lack of milk. Peanut cultivation and management techniques are also relatively strong. Peanut belongs to genus 1 species of Leguminosae, commonly known as groundnut and peanut. There are about 20 species in this genus. It is generally believed that peanuts originated in Peru and Brazil. A large number of ancient peanuts were found in prehistoric remains in the coastal areas of Peru, dating back to at least 500 BC. It was clearly recorded in Brazil, one of the earliest ancient books in America, and was called "Anhuk" by ancient Indians. During Columbus' voyage, navigators brought peanut pods to Spain. It is recorded in the General History of West India published by 1535 that peanuts are called "mani" in Spanish, and then gradually spread all over the world. At the same time, there are some indications that China may also be one of the origins of peanuts. The carbonized peanut seeds were unearthed at Qianshanyang Primitive Social Site in Xing Wu, Zhejiang Province in 1958, and the age of the pit was 4,700 years ago. 196 1 year, carbonized peanut seeds were excavated again in the primitive social site in Shanbei area, xiushui county, Jiangxi Province. In addition, wild plants with similar morphology to peanuts have also been reported in Guangxi, Yunnan and Jiangxi. In 2007, confirmed by experts from Xi 'an Wenbao Center, peanuts had appeared in the crops unearthed from the graves of Hanyang Mausoleum 2 100 years ago. China recorded in Youyang Zayu in the Tang Dynasty that "it is shaped like taro and crawls" and "flowers are also like taro, also called peanuts". In the Dietary Guide written by Jia Ming, a Yuan Dynasty person, "Peanuts are sweet, slightly bitter, flat in nature and shaped like taro. Children eat more, qi stagnation is hard to disappear ",and" a kind of peanut, with a mysterious name, bears fruit, which is pungent, bitter, sweet and cold in nature, shaped like a pod, including lotus seeds, cucumbers and duck eggs, and often kills people and eats more. Peanuts are also recorded in Mao Lan's Herbal Medicine of Southern Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty. However, today's extensive growers are undoubtedly introduced to South America. By the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, peanut planting was common in China's coastal areas, and peanut varieties were introduced from South America many times, the latest one being 1887. According to the records of Cixian County Records, "groundnuts are the most widely planted according to the county records, and nearly one species comes from the East, with large grains and particularly hard and brittle". Europe once imported peanuts from China, so some places in Europe still call them "China nuts". In the Flora of Congo (18 18), the Brown family in Congo said that "peanuts were introduced from China to India, Ceylon and Malay Archipelago, and later to Africa. "