Abstract
Effect of foreign material on peanut kernel moisture content prediction from microwave dielectric measurements on peanut pods was investigated. A low-cost microwave moisture meter operating at 5.8 GHz was calibrated in the laboratory with clean samples of pods and kernels. Resulting moisture calibration equations were used to predict kernel moisture content from measurement of the dielectric properties of clean and unclean peanut pod samples of different varieties and originating from different growing locations. The standard error of performance when comparing with kernel moisture obtained with the official moisture meter were 0.81% for moisture predictions from measurements on clean samples of pods and 0.88% for moisture predictions from measurements on unclean samples of pods.
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