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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.
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
The term has been used in Queensland, Australia, as a synonym for peanut butter. [3] This followed pressure from dairy farmers who did not want peanut butter competing with butter for market share. [4] The product was known in Western Australia and South Australia for many years as peanut paste because, by definition, butter is a dairy product ...
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.
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.
But despite the low risk of harm—made even lower when considering that butter is one of the most well-known dairy products—the enormous supply of butter will now go to waste.
A food paste is a semi-liquid colloidal suspension, emulsion, or aggregation used in food preparation or eaten directly as a spread. [1] Pastes are often spicy or aromatic, prepared well in advance of actual usage, and are often made into a preserve for future use.
Scientists are getting one step closer to having a solution for peanut allergy with the development of a peanut skin patch that helps children safely tolerate exposure to a small amount of the nuts.