The technique of stray-field NMR has been applied to the study of an oil-be
aring sled. It is found to provide additional information about the smalles
t size of oil drops within the cotyledon not easily measurable by other met
hods. A peanut was chosen as a convenient seed to investigate so as to allo
w comparison with previously published NMR pulsed field gradient data. We f
ind a broad distribution of oil drop sizes ranging from a lower limit of or
der 0.26 mum up to a maximum of approximately 1.3 mum.