Your Monkey’s Diet  & Health

Part 3: Peanuts With 26% Complete Protein

The raw jungle peanut is raw, certified organic and aflatoxin-free and originates in Ecuador and best of all, it’s the only nut with 26% complete protein.

Here’s the catch: Raw peanuts are harder for your monkey to digest that roasted one because of enzyme inhibitors present in the raw nuts. But germinating them makes them easier to digest and increases their vitamin content (see part one of this article).

This peanut differs from the common peanut, having golden-brown skin with smooth reddish stripes and a larger, more bumpy shape. They have a rich, peanut flavor and aroma. Virtually all peanuts are known to have a mold on them called aflatoxin, but jungle peanuts have been tested and found aflatoxin free!

Further testing revealed that the jungle peanut contains over 40% of the beautifying oleic acid. This makes it truly “heart healthy” for your primate.

They also contain a whopping 26%  complete protein! That’s more than hemp or flax seeds. Jungle peanuts have all 8 essential amino acids, plus some like methionine that are difficult to find in other foods.

They have Arachidonic acid, a fatty acid typically only found in meat products.

Germinating these wonderpeanuts is the best way to serve them up to your monkey.

Buying jungle peanuts also helps the native people in Ecuador fight to keep their land and its natural beauty.  (Buy raw jungle peanuts at www.rawfood.com).

 

 

Left are raw jungle peanuts and right are the same peanuts germinated (soaked in a strategic way - See the second part of this article). Jungle peanuts have superior nutrition with 26% complete protein!!

Even monkeys who have eaten roasted peanuts for two or three decades, like white-faced capuchin Heidi, below left, and black spider monkey Samantha, right, greet sprouted jungle peanuts with enthusiasm.