“…It is also useful for the proximate measurement of food composition and constituents like, protein, oil, carbohydrates, moisture content, total soluble solids, and so forth, with minimal sample preparation and reduced analysis time (Bansod et al, ; Sundaram et al, ). Several workers reported the use of NIRS for rapid and nondestructive measurement of fatty acid profile in intact peanut seeds (Fox & Cruickshank, ; Kavera & Hanchinal, ; Misra, Mathur, & Bhatt, ; Sundaram, Kandala, Butts, Chen, & Sobolev, ; Tillman, Gorbet, & Person, ). In the present study, a new NIR spectrophotometer was calibrated for nondestructive measurement of oil and fatty acids in intact peanut seeds.…”