Currently, peanut grading
is a labor-intensive process during which inspectors determine
several quality attributes including meat content, size
of pods, damaged kernels, foreign material, and kernel moisture
content. At peanut buying stations, it is only after sorting,
cleaning, and shelling that kernel moisture content is determined
and a decision is made whether the peanut lot meets
the standard value for sale (10.49% or less, in the U.S.). It
would be advantageous to determine kernel moisture content
while the kernels are still in the pods at the beginning of
the grading process. Recently,