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Plumpy'Nut is a peanut-based paste, packaged in a plastic wrapper, for treatment of severe acute malnutrition. Plumpy'Nut is manufactured by Nutriset, a French company. [4] [5] Feeding with the 92-gram (3 + 1 ⁄ 4 oz) packets of this paste reduces the need for hospitalization. It can be administered at home, allowing more people to be treated.
Meds & Food for Kids (or MFK) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to treating and preventing child malnutrition in Haiti by producing fortified peanut-based foods. Meds & Food for Kids uses a peanut-based feeding approach called Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), known as Medika Mamba (Haitian Creole for "Peanut Butter Medicine").
Citadel spread, a paste of peanuts, oil, sugar and milk powder in use since 1971; Plumpy'nut, a solid RUTF, made in France since 1996 for treatment of severe acute malnutrition; Medika Mamba, an enriched peanut butter therapeutic food produced and distributed by Meds and Food for Kids in Haiti since 2003
Compared to other nut butter varieties, peanut butter has a slightly different micronutrient profile, but is generally similar in nutritional value, says Jessica Zinn, M.S., R.D., C.D.N ...
Peanut butter and almond butter both contain plenty of heart-healthy unsaturated fatty acids, including oleic acid, a type of omega-9 fatty acid which helps lower LDL cholesterol, per Largeman-Roth.
Peanut butter is a food paste or spread made from ground, dry-roasted peanuts. It commonly contains additional ingredients that modify the taste or texture, such as salt, sweeteners, or emulsifiers. Consumed in many countries, it is the most commonly used of the nut butters, a group that also includes cashew butter and almond butter.
The treatment involves taking a tiny amount of peanut protein (the equivalent of one-seventy-fifth of a peanut) under the tongue, where it's absorbed into the body.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors reported, following a two-week inspection of the Blakely, Georgia, plant in January 2009, that the company had information that its peanut-butter products were tainted with Salmonella, but shipped them anyway after "retesting" them. This occurred at least 12 times in 2007 and 2008.