Peanut is a type of legume that grows in the ground and it is very sensitive to the growth of fungi due to the tropical climate conditions. Aspergillus infection for peanuts is most common concern. Peanut is cultivated because of its oil, which after extracting the oil with solvent, produce meal with 1%-5% fat and about 47% protein.

Peanuts, like soy, have a trypsin inhibitor that is degraded by heat during oil extraction. And this substance has carcinogenic properly and the aflatoxin in it cause destruction of the liver. Peanut meal that has aflatoxin-contaminated can be processed with ammonia that remove 95% of its toxins. Similarly, you can add products such as sodium, calcium, aluminosilicates to diets that causes bind these minerals to aflatoxins and prevent absorption of aflatoxins.